I have a script which allows me to generate MIME messages with appropriate
attachments. It's essentially a lightly modified version of the second
example from this page of the email package docs:
http://docs.python.org/library/email-examples.html
I want to modify my script to automatically zip or gzip files which exceed
some size threshold. Doing the zip/gzip dance is no problem. I'm concerned
about how to specify that properly with the email package. For example,
consider a large CSV file. I figure out the MIME type is text/csv. Now
suppose I gzip the file before attaching it. How would this code change to
specify the compression where "path" is now compressed?
if maintype == 'text':
fp = open(path)
# Note: we should handle calculating the charset
msg = MIMEText(fp.read(), _subtype=subtype)
fp.close()
I guess I'm asking if I can have the Content-Type still be text/csv with
some other MIME header indicating the file is compressed. If so, how do I
achieve that when attaching the compressed file to the message?
Thanks,
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