Golang : Send email with attachment
In my previous tutorial on Go's send email and configure SMTP example, I left out a part where any decent email package should have - that is the - email attachment part.
So, how to attach files onto email in Golang ?
After trying to write a decent tutorial to demonstrate this...only then I realized that the codes can be super messy and unreadable. Therefore, I would rather settle for this simple to use third party package https://github.com/scorredoira/email to get this tutorial published. (I'm lazy)
Here it is :
package main
import (
"github.com/scorredoira/email"
"fmt"
"net/smtp"
"strconv"
)
type EmailConfig struct {
Username string
Password string
Host string
Port int
}
func main() {
// authentication configuration
smtpHost := "smtp.***.com" // change to your SMTP provider address
smtpPort := *** // change to your SMPT provider port number
smtpPass := "****" // change here
smtpUser := "******" // change here
emailConf := &EmailConfig{smtpUser, smtpPass, smtpHost, smtpPort}
emailauth := smtp.PlainAuth("", emailConf.Username, emailConf.Password, emailConf.Host)
sender := "******@mail.com" // change here
receivers := []string{
"*****@mail.com",
"****@mail.com",
} // change here
message := "Please see the email attachment for the images"
subject := "Attached my photos!"
emailContent := email.NewMessage(subject, message)
emailContent.From = sender
emailContent.To = receivers
files := []string{
"big.jpg",
"small.jpg",
} // change here to your own files
for _, filename := range files {
err := emailContent.Attach(filename)
if err != nil {
fmt.Println(err)
}
}
// send out the email
err := email.Send(smtpHost+":"+strconv.Itoa(emailConf.Port), //convert port number from int to string
emailauth,
emailContent)
if err != nil {
fmt.Println(err)
}
}
Executing this program will not generate any message unless there is error and if everything goes well, you should receive the email with attachment.
https://www.socketloop.com/tutorials/golang-send-email-and-smtp-configuration-example
See also : Golang : Send email and SMTP configuration example
By Adam Ng
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