sendemail.py

def sendEmail(source, message, subject, toaddress, fromaddress, filename):

    # if conflocal.py is not found, import default config.py

    # Check for user imports
    try:
        import conflocal as config
    except ImportError:
        import config

    # Import smtplib for the actual sending function
    import smtplib

    # Here are the email package modules we'll need
    from email.mime.image import MIMEImage
    from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
    from email.mime.text import MIMEText

    COMMASPACE = ', '

    # Create the container (outer) email message.
    msg = MIMEMultipart()
    msg['Subject'] = subject 
    # me == the sender's email address
    # family = the list of all recipients' email addresses
    msg['From'] = fromaddress
    msg['To'] =  toaddress
    #msg.attach(message) 

    mainbody = MIMEText(message, 'plain')
    msg.attach(mainbody)

    # Assume we know that the image files are all in PNG format
        # Open the files in binary mode.  Let the MIMEImage class automatically
           # guess the specific image type.
    if (filename != ""):
            fp = open(filename, 'rb')
            img = MIMEImage(fp.read())
            fp.close()
            msg.attach(img)

    # Send the email via our own SMTP server.

    try:
        # open up a line with the server
        s = smtplib.SMTP("smtp.gmail.com", 587)
        s.ehlo()
        s.starttls()
        s.ehlo()

        # login, send email, logout
        s.login(config.mailUser, config.mailPassword)
        s.sendmail(config.mailUser, toaddress, msg.as_string())
        #s.close()


        s.quit()

    except:
        
        print("sendmail exception raised")
    return 0