MIMEMultipart、MIMEText、MIMEBase 和用于在 Python 中发送带有文件附件的电子邮件的有效负载

Without much prior knowledge of MIME, I tried to learned how to write a Python script to send an email with a file attachment. After cross-referencing Python documentation, Stack Overflow questions, and general web searching, I settled with the following code ^[1] and tested it to be working.

import smtplib
from email.MIMEMultipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.MIMEText import MIMEText
from email.MIMEBase import MIMEBase
from email import encoders

fromaddr = "YOUR EMAIL"
toaddr = "EMAIL ADDRESS YOU SEND TO"

msg = MIMEMultipart()

msg['From'] = fromaddr
msg['To'] = toaddr
msg['Subject'] = "SUBJECT OF THE EMAIL"

body = "TEXT YOU WANT TO SEND"

msg.attach(MIMEText(body, 'plain'))

filename = "NAME OF THE FILE WITH ITS EXTENSION"
attachment = open("PATH OF THE FILE", "rb")

part = MIMEBase('application', 'octet-stream')
part.set_payload((attachment).read())
encoders.encode_base64(part)
part.add_header('Content-Disposition', "attachment; filename= %s" % filename)

msg.attach(part)

server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587)
server.starttls()
server.login(fromaddr, "YOUR PASSWORD")
text = msg.as_string()
server.sendmail(fromaddr, toaddr, text)
server.quit()

1. 我现在大致了解了这个脚本的工作原理，并制定了以下工作流程.请让我知道我的流程图(?)有多准确.

 as.string()  
 |
 +------------MIMEMultipart  
              |                                                |---content-type  
              |                                   +---header---+---content disposition  
              +----.attach()-----+----MIMEBase----|  
                                 |                +---payload (to be encoded in Base64)
                                 +----MIMEText