Binary file email attachment problem

Question

Using Python 3.1.2 I am having a problem sending binary attachment files (jpeg, pdf, etc.) - MIMEText attachments work fine. The code in question is as follows...

Answer 1

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from base64 import encodebytes
for file in self.attachments:
    fp = open(file, 'rb')
    part = MIMEBase('application', "octet-stream")
    part.set_payload(encodebytes(fp.read()).decode())
    fp.close()
    part.add_header('Content-Transfer-Encoding', 'base64')
    part.add_header('Content-Disposition', 'attachment; filename="%s"' % file)
    msg.attach(part)   # msg is an instance of MIMEMultipart()

server = smtplib.SMTP(host, port)
server.login(username, password)
server.sendmail(from_addr, all_recipients, msg.as_string())