Django email attachment of file upload

Question

I am trying to attach a file to an email. The file is uploaded by the user and put into the media folder.

I have tried two ways.

First:

def email_view(request, pk):
    person = Person.objects.get(pk=pk)
    email_to = person.email
    email = EmailMessage(
        'Subject here', 'Here is the message.', 'email@email.com', [email_to])
    email.attach_file(person.upload)
    email.send()

    return redirect('home')

This gives me an error 'FieldFile' object has no attribute 'rfind'

Second:

def email_view(request, pk):
    person = Person.objects.get(pk=pk)
    email_to = person.email

    attachment = str(person.upload)
    attachment = 'http://my_site:8080/media/' + attachment.replace('./', '')
    email = EmailMessage(
        'Subject here', 'Here is the message.', 'email@email.com', [email_to])
    email.attach_file(attachment)
    email.send()

    return redirect('home')

This gives me a page not found. If i copy the url from the error though it takes me to the file. I assume this is happening because of the string format

The redirect is not the issue. It refers to the url name. It works without the attachment part — Mantis, Oct 23 '15 at 13:24

Dima Kudosh · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-23T13:45:01.437

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You get this error because you pass FileField object to attach_file method, not file path. Try to change it to:

email.attach_file(person.upload.file.name)

edited Oct 23 '15 at 13:45

answered Oct 23 '15 at 13:22

Dima Kudosh

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didn't work. I get `[Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'http://my_site:8080/media/uploads/test.pdf'`. It is definitely there though as if i copy and past the url it takes me to the file – Mantis Oct 23 '15 at 13:29
@DimaKudosh Hi, how did you resoled the file does not exist error. Same is happening with me. i can open the file in browser but gives a error no file or directory – ankush madaan Jun 20 '16 at 12:19

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Feb 23 '20 at 20:26

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I had the same error of file not found. This is the tweak I used:

from django.conf import settings
import os

filename = os.path.join(settings.MEDIA_ROOT, person.upload.file.name)
email.attach_file(filename)

edited Feb 23 '20 at 20:26

colidyre

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answered Feb 23 '20 at 20:10

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 01 '20 at 16:57

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Here's a much cleaner solution. path already contains the absolute path to the file so no need to do os.joins or other concatenations

    email.attach_file(person.upload.file.path)

answered Oct 01 '20 at 16:57

JR Enriquez

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