-- load the smtp support and its friends local smtp = require("socket.smtp") local mime = require("mime") local ltn12 = require("ltn12") function filter(s) if s then io.write(s) end return s end source = smtp.message { headers = { ['content-type'] = 'multipart/alternative' }, body = { [1] = { headers = { ['content-type'] = 'text/html' }, body = " Hi, there... " }, [2] = { headers = { ['content-type'] = 'text/plain' }, body = "Hi, there..." } } } r, e = smtp.send{ rcpt = {"", "" }, from = "", source = ltn12.source.chain(source, filter), --server = "mail.cs.princeton.edu" server = "localhost", port = 2525 } -- creates a source to send a message with two parts. The first part is -- plain text, the second part is a PNG image, encoded as base64. source = smtp.message{ headers = { -- Remember that headers are *ignored* by smtp.send. from = "Sicrano ", to = "Fulano ", subject = "Here is a message with attachments" }, body = { preamble = "If your client doesn't understand attachments, \r\n" .. "it will still display the preamble and the epilogue.\r\n" .. "Preamble might show up even in a MIME enabled client.", -- first part: No headers means plain text, us-ascii. -- The mime.eol low-level filter normalizes end-of-line markers. [1] = { body = mime.eol(0, [[ Lines in a message body should always end with CRLF. The smtp module will *NOT* perform translation. It will perform necessary stuffing, though. ]]) }, -- second part: Headers describe content the to be an image, -- sent under the base64 transfer content encoding. -- Notice that nothing happens until the message is sent. Small -- chunks are loaded into memory and translation happens on the fly. [2] = { headers = { ["content-type"] = 'image/png; name="luasocket.png"', ["content-disposition"] = 'attachment; filename="luasocket.png"', ["content-description"] = 'a beautiful image', ["content-transfer-encoding"] = "BASE64" }, body = ltn12.source.chain( ltn12.source.file(io.open("luasocket.png", "rb")), ltn12.filter.chain( mime.encode("base64"), mime.wrap() ) ) }, epilogue = "This might also show up, but after the attachments" } } r, e = smtp.send{ rcpt = {"", "" }, from = "", source = ltn12.source.chain(source, filter), --server = "mail.cs.princeton.edu" server = "localhost", port = 2525 } print(r, e)