commit 54be0252197aa38dcda30415e1c25d6a08fe9f03 Author: Damian Johnson atagar@torproject.org Date: Mon Sep 16 11:49:32 2013 -0700

Sending email via our local mail application

The java version of doctor sends email via...

cat out/status/all-warnings | mail -E -s 'Consensus issues' tor-consensus-health@lists.torproject.org

Gonna give this a whirl for our python version on yatei... --- util.py | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/util.py b/util.py index 4874327..32e795e 100644 --- a/util.py +++ b/util.py @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ Module for issuing email notifications to me via gmail. import logging import os import smtplib +import subprocess

from email import Encoders from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart @@ -78,7 +79,26 @@ def log_stem_debugging(name): log.addHandler(handler)

-def send(subject, body_text = None, body_html = None, attachment = None, destination = TO_ADDRESS): +def send(subject, body_text = None, destination = TO_ADDRESS): + """ + Sends an email notification via the local mail application. + + :param str subject: subject of the email + :param str body_text: plaintext body of the email + :param str destination: location to send the email to + + :raises: **Exception** if the email fails to be sent + """ + + process = subprocess.Popen(['mail', '-E', '-s', subject, destination], stdout = subprocess.PIPE, stderr = subprocess.PIPE) + stdout, stderr = process.communicate(body_text) + exit_code = process.poll() + + if exit_code != 0: + raise ValueError("Unable to send email: %s" % stderr.strip()) + + +def send_via_gmail(subject, body_text = None, body_html = None, attachment = None, destination = TO_ADDRESS): """ Sends an email notification via gmail.

@@ -86,6 +106,7 @@ def send(subject, body_text = None, body_html = None, attachment = None, destina :param str body_text: plaintext body of the email :param str body_html: html body of the email :param str attachment: path of a file to attach + :param str destination: location to send the email to

:raises: **Exception** if the email fails to be sent """