cleverdevil · January 4, 2014 01:06 · Jan 4, 2014
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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+'''
+Send an multipart email with HTML and plain text alternatives. The message
+should be constructed as a plain-text file of the following format:
+    
+    From: Your Name <your@email.com>
+    To: Recipient One <recipient@to.com>
+    Subject: Your subject line
+    ---
+    Markdown content here
+
+The script accepts content from stdin and, by default, prints the raw
+generated email content to stdout.
+
+Preview your message on OS X by invoking the script with `-p` or 
+`--preview`, and it will open in your default mail client.
+
+To send the message, invoke with `-s` or `--send`. You must have a
+JSON file in your home directory named `.markdown-to-email.json`
+with the following keys:
+
+    {
+        "username": "smtp-username", 
+        "smtp": "smtp.gmail.com:587", 
+        "password": "your-password" 
+    }
+
+Enjoy!
+'''
+
+
+import os
+import sys
+import json
+import argparse
+import smtplib
+import subprocess
+
+from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
+from email.mime.text import MIMEText
+
+try:
+    import pygments
+    import markdown
+except ImportError:
+    print 'This script requires pygements and markdown to be installed.'
+    print 'Please:'
+    print '   pip install pygments markdown'
+    sys.exit(0)
+
+# define arguments
+parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Format and send markdown-based emails.',
+                                 formatter_class=argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter,
+                                 epilog=__doc__)
+parser.add_argument('-p', '--preview', action='store_true', 
+                    help='Preview the email in Apple Mail.')
+parser.add_argument('-s', '--send', action='store_true', 
+                    help='Send the email using your configuration.')
+args = parser.parse_args()
+
+# read in raw message content
+raw_content = sys.stdin.read()
+
+# split out the headers from the markdown message body
+header_content, markdown_content = raw_content.split('--', 1)
+
+# render the markdown into HTML 
+css = subprocess.check_output(['pygmentize', '-S', 'default', '-f', 'html'])
+markdown_content = markdown_content.strip()
+html_content = markdown.markdown(markdown_content, ['extra', 'codehilite'])
+html_content = '<style type="text/css">'+css+'</style>'+html_content
+
+# create a multipart email message
+message = MIMEMultipart('alternative')
+
+# parse the headers
+headers = {}
+for line in header_content.strip().split('\n'):
+    if not line.strip(): continue
+    key, value = line.split(':', 1)
+    headers[key.strip()] = value.strip()
+
+# set the headers
+message['To'] = headers.get('To', '')
+message['From'] = headers.get('From', '')
+message['Subject'] = headers.get('Subject', 'No subject')
+
+# attach the message parts
+message.attach(MIMEText(markdown_content, 'plain'))
+message.attach(MIMEText(html_content, 'html'))
+
+if args.send:
+    to = message['To'].split(', ')
+
+    with open(os.path.expanduser('~/.markdown-to-email.json'), 'rb') as f:
+        config = json.loads(f.read())
+        server = smtplib.SMTP(config['smtp'])
+        server.starttls()
+        server.login(config['username'], config['password'])
+        server.sendmail(message['From'], to, message.as_string())
+        server.quit()
+elif args.preview:
+    open('/tmp/preview.eml', 'w').write(message.as_string())
+    os.system('open -a Mail /tmp/preview.eml')
+else:
+    print message.as_string()
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