Luckily, I didn't have to stay up until midnight to do it, but rather cobbled together a nifty Python script that will wait until a given time, then send a message (including HTML if you have it).
#!/usr/bin/env python
import datetime
import re
import smtplib
import time
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
gmail_user = "yourname@gmail.com"
gmail_pwd = "MyP@$$W0Rd"
def mail(to, subject, body):
msg = MIMEMultipart('alternative')
msg['From'] = gmail_user
msg['To'] = to
msg['Subject'] = subject
if '<html>' in body:
msg.attach(MIMEText(re.sub(r'<.*?>', '', body), 'plain'))
msg.attach(MIMEText(body, 'html'))
else:
msg.attach(MIMEText(body, 'plain'))
m = smtplib.SMTP("smtp.gmail.com", 587)
m.ehlo()
m.starttls()
m.ehlo()
m.login(gmail_user, gmail_pwd)
m.sendmail(gmail_user, to, msg.as_string())
m.quit()
if __name__ == "__main__":
while datetime.datetime.today() < datetime.datetime(2011, 5, 24):
time.sleep(1)
mail("someone_else@gmail.com", "subject",
"<html><b>bold body</b> non-bold body</html>")
Things to Note:
- Line 11-12, you will need to enter your Gmail address, along with your password in plaintext, so be careful.
- Line 21, If the body of the message you want to send has the tag <html> it will be sent as an HTML message, all tags will also be stripped and a plaintext version will be put in the document as well.
- Line 36, The date you use needs to be in ISO format, YYYY-MM-DD, if you want you can even add HH, MM, and SS like this:
datetime.datetime(2011, 5, 24, 13, 5, 19)
- Line 39: The first param is the address you are sending to, the second is the subject, and the third is the body (with or without html).
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