Year: 2009

Good Bye 2009, Welcome 2010!

Post author By masnun
Post date December 31, 2009
1 Comment on Good Bye 2009, Welcome 2010!

I should feel sorry now that 2009 is leaving me, leaving us! I have had the most eventful year in 2009 🙂

First things First
What were the things those happened first time in my life?

— I sat for University Admission test.
— Got chances in SUST CSE and 4 disciplines in KU.
— My University life began.
— Started free lancing seriously.
— Started earning money at a regular interval.
— Went to BAD picnic and my first tour with the BAD family into the Sunderbans 🙂
— Joined my first Job (At Leevio as a software engineer).
— Attended the first ever FICC.
— Stood 3rd in my first Uni term final 🙂
— Started using Ubuntu seriously
— Started working with WP API
— Worked on GAE and other Python stuff 🙂

What else?
— BAD won the cricket championship. I was an active part in the gallery.
— Met a bunch of cool friends.
— Lost a few fake ones as well.
— My brother got chance in Khulna Zilla School 🙂

Wishlist for 2010
I would wish only one thing — A laptop in 2010 🙂

I am really contended with what I have got in life. I am happy with what I got in 2009. Thanks to the Almighty Allah for everything HE has blessed on me 🙂 I just pray that nothing bad happens in 2010 😀

I pray to the Almighty so that HE bestows his blessings upon those who have a worse life than me. I have nothing more to expect 🙂

Good Bye 2009, Welcome 2010! 🙂

PHP

A PHP Mailer Class

UPDATE: Added application of the basename() function to the attached filenames to get the filenames only.

This php class lets you attach multiple files and send emails via Postfix without digging into the messy headers 😀

<?php
class Mailer {
    function __construct($to="",$from="",$sub="",$msg="",$files=array()) {
        $this->to = $to;
        $this->from = $from;
        $this->sub = $sub;
        $this->msg = $msg;
        $this->files = $files;
    }

    function attachFile($file) {
        if(!empty($file)) {
            $this->files[] = $file;
        }
    }


    function setMessage($msg) {
        if(!empty($msg)) {
            $this->msg = $msg;
        }
    }


    function setTo($to) {
        if(!empty($to)) {
            $this->to = $to;
        }
    }


    function setFrom($from) {
        if(!empty($from)) {
            $this->from = $from;
        }
    }


    function setSubject($sub) {
        if(!empty($sub)) {
            $this->sub = $sub;
        }
    }


    function sendMail() {

        $files = $this->files;

// email fields: to, from, subject, and so on
        $to = $this->to;
        $from = $this->from;
        $subject = $this->sub;
        $message = $this->msg;

        $headers = "From: $from ";

// boundary
        $semi_rand = md5(time());
        $mime_boundary = "==Multipart_Boundary_x{$semi_rand}x";

// headers for attachment
        $headers .= "\nMIME-Version: 1.0\n" . "Content-Type: multipart/mixed;\n" . " boundary=\"{$mime_boundary}\"";

// multipart boundary
        $message = "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\n\n" . "--{$mime_boundary}\n" . "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n" . "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\n" . $message . "\n\n";
        $message .= "--{$mime_boundary}\n";

// preparing attachments
        for($x=0;$x<count($files);$x++) {
            $file = fopen($files[$x],"rb");
            $data = fread($file,filesize($files[$x]));
            fclose($file);
            $data = chunk_split(base64_encode($data));
            $message .= "Content-Type: {\"application/octet-stream\"};\n" . " name=\"$files[$x]\"\n" .
                    "Content-Disposition: attachment;\n" . " filename=\"".basename($files[$x])."\"\n" .
                    "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n\n" . $data . "\n\n";
            $message .= "--{$mime_boundary}\n";
        }

// send

        $ok = @mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
        return $ok;
    }
}
?>

<?php

class Mailer {

function __construct($to="",$from="",$sub="",$msg="",$files=array()) {

$this->to = $to;

$this->from = $from;

$this->sub = $sub;

$this->msg = $msg;

$this->files = $files;

}

function attachFile($file) {

if(!empty($file)) {

$this->files[] = $file;

}

function setMessage($msg) {

if(!empty($msg)) {

$this->msg = $msg;

}

function setTo($to) {

if(!empty($to)) {

$this->to = $to;

}

function setFrom($from) {

if(!empty($from)) {

$this->from = $from;

}

function setSubject($sub) {

if(!empty($sub)) {

$this->sub = $sub;

}

function sendMail() {

$files = $this->files;

// email fields: to, from, subject, and so on

$to = $this->to;

$from = $this->from;

$subject = $this->sub;

$message = $this->msg;

$headers = "From: $from ";

// boundary

$semi_rand = md5(time());

$mime_boundary = "==Multipart_Boundary_x{$semi_rand}x";

// headers for attachment

$headers .= "\nMIME-Version: 1.0\n" . "Content-Type: multipart/mixed;\n" . " boundary=\"{$mime_boundary}\"";

// multipart boundary

$message = "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\n\n" . "--{$mime_boundary}\n" . "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n" . "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\n" . $message . "\n\n";

$message .= "--{$mime_boundary}\n";

// preparing attachments

for($x=0;$x<count($files);$x++) {

$file = fopen($files[$x],"rb");

$data = fread($file,filesize($files[$x]));

fclose($file);

$data = chunk_split(base64_encode($data));

$message .= "Content-Type: {\"application/octet-stream\"};\n" . " name=\"$files[$x]\"\n" .

"Content-Disposition: attachment;\n" . " filename=\"".basename($files[$x])."\"\n" .

"Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n\n" . $data . "\n\n";

$message .= "--{$mime_boundary}\n";

}

// send

$ok = @mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

return $ok;

}

Example USE:

<?php
include("mailer.php");
$m = new Mailer();
$m->setTo("maSnun <masnun@gmail.com>");
$m->setFrom("phpGeek <masnun@leevio.com>");
$m->setSubject("A bunch of files");
$m->setMessage("Hello buddy! Files attached!");
$m->attachFile("images/Screenshot.png");

if($m->sendMail()) { echo "Sent \n"; } else { echo "failed \n"; }
?>

<?php

include("mailer.php");

$m = new Mailer();

$m->setTo("maSnun <masnun@gmail.com>");

$m->setFrom("phpGeek <masnun@leevio.com>");

$m->setSubject("A bunch of files");

$m->setMessage("Hello buddy! Files attached!");

$m->attachFile("images/Screenshot.png");

if($m->sendMail()) { echo "Sent \n"; } else { echo "failed \n"; }

Happy Mailing! 😀

Python

Python: Sending a bunch of images as email attachments

Post author By masnun
Post date December 29, 2009
1 Comment on Python: Sending a bunch of images as email attachments

Python is just beautiful! In my last post I mentioned how you can setup an email server. Now, here’s the code I use to send a bunch of images as attachments with my outgoing emails. This code snippet was taken from the Python manual. But unfortunately the code was not complete. So, I had to hack through it and configure it to suit my needs.

#!/usr/bin/python

import smtplib,glob,os
from email.mime.image import MIMEImage
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart

COMMASPACE = ', '


msg = MIMEMultipart()
msg['Subject'] = 'Our family reunion'
me = "masnun@leevio.com"
family = ['masnun@gmail.com','jotil21@gmail.com']
msg['From'] = me
msg['To'] = COMMASPACE.join(family)
msg.preamble = 'Our family reunion'

path = "images/"
pngfiles = glob.glob( os.path.join(path, "*.png") )
for file in pngfiles:
    # Open the files in binary mode.  Let the MIMEImage class automatically
    # guess the specific image type.
    fp = open(file, 'rb')
    img = MIMEImage(fp.read())
    fp.close()
    msg.attach(img)

# Send the email via our own SMTP server.
s = smtplib.SMTP("localhost")
s.sendmail(me, family, msg.as_string())
s.quit()

#!/usr/bin/python

import smtplib,glob,os

from email.mime.image import MIMEImage

from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart

COMMASPACE = ', '

msg = MIMEMultipart()

msg['Subject'] = 'Our family reunion'

me = "masnun@leevio.com"

family = ['masnun@gmail.com','jotil21@gmail.com']

msg['From'] = me

msg['To'] = COMMASPACE.join(family)

msg.preamble = 'Our family reunion'

path = "images/"

pngfiles = glob.glob( os.path.join(path, "*.png") )

for file in pngfiles:

# Open the files in binary mode. Let the MIMEImage class automatically

# guess the specific image type.

fp = open(file, 'rb')

img = MIMEImage(fp.read())

fp.close()

msg.attach(img)

# Send the email via our own SMTP server.

s = smtplib.SMTP("localhost")

s.sendmail(me, family, msg.as_string())

s.quit()

It currently reads the “images” directory and mails out the png files. But if you look at the codes, you’ll see that the codes can be easily changed to send other files as well 🙂

I love Python!

PS: I am looking for a good way to attach files using PHP. The way I found was messy! I know the huge PHP community certainly has something better to offer. I will post it as soon as I find it 🙂

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