The code below transmits your reports via email using Azure Communication Services, bypassing common issues with SMTP servers.

To use this method, you must have…

• Setup Azure Communication Services and the Email Services,
• Created an access key and a 'NoReply' email address.
• Added the key and address to your settings, as azurekey and azureemail respectively,
• Installed the azure.communication package in Python on the ReportList server.

import os
import json
import traceback
import base64
 
def GetFileContent(fname):
    content = None
    with open(fname,'rb') as img:
        content = base64.b64encode(img.read())
 
    return content
 
 
pth = os.path.dirname(__file__) + "/content.json"
f = open(pth,'r')
content = f.read()
f.close()
 
content = json.loads(content)
messages = content['messages']
comkey = content["options"]["azurekey"]
fromaddr = content["options"]["azureemail"]
 
from azure.communication.email import EmailClient
 
try:
    connection_string = "endpoint=https://cservices.australia.communication.azure.com/;accesskey=" + comkey
    client = EmailClient.from_connection_string(connection_string)
 
    for msg in messages:
        try:
            toaddress = msg['to']
            recip = []            
            recip.append({"address": toaddress['name']})
 
            message = {
                "senderAddress": str(fromaddr),
                "recipients":  {
                    "to": recip,
                },
                "content": {
                    "subject": msg['title'],
                    "plainText": msg['content'],
                    "html": msg['richcontent']
                },
                "attachments": []
            }
 
            for at in msg['attachments']:
                nitem = {}
                ct = GetFileContent(at['path'])
                if ct is not None:
                    nitem['name'] = at['name']
                    nitem['contentType'] = at['contenttype']
                    nitem['contentInBase64'] = ct.decode()
                    message['attachments'].append(nitem)
 
            #print(str(message))
 
            poller = client.begin_send(message)
            result = poller.result()
 
            print("-----")
            print("SUCCESS")
        except:
            print("-----")
            print("FAILURE")
            traceback.print_exc()
            pass
 
except Exception as ex:
    print("-----")
    print("FAILURE")