Paubox Python Package
This package and Paubox Transactional Email HTTP API are currently in alpha development.
This is the official Python package for the Paubox Transactional Email HTTP API. The Paubox Transactional Email API allows your application to send secure, HIPAA-compliant email via Paubox and track deliveries and opens.
Table of Contents
Installation
Getting Paubox API Credentials
You will need to have a Paubox account. You can sign up here.
Once you have an account, follow the instructions on the Rest API dashboard to verify domain ownership and generate API credentials.
Setup Environment Variables
$ echo "export PAUBOX_API_KEY='YOUR_API_KEY'" > .env
$ echo "export PAUBOX_HOST='https://api.paubox.net/v1/YOUR_ENDPOINT_NAME'" >> .env
$ echo ".env" >> .gitignore
$ source .env
Install Package
$ pip install paubox-python
Dependencies
Usage
Sending Messages with the Paubox Mail Helper
Sending via Paubox is easy. This is the minimum content needed to send an email.
import paubox
from paubox.helpers.mail import Mail
paubox_client = paubox.PauboxApiClient()
recipients = ["recipient@example.com"]
from_ = "sender@yourdomain.com"
subject = "Testing!"
content = {"text/plain": "Hello World!"}
mail = Mail(from_, subject, recipients, content)
response = paubox_client.send(mail.get())
print(response.status_code)
print(response.headers)
print(response.text)Sending Messages without the Mail Helper Class
import paubox
paubox_client = paubox.PauboxApiClient()
mail = {
"data": {
"message": {
"recipients": [
"recipient@example.com"
],
"headers": {
"subject": "Testing!",
"from": "sender@yourdomain.com"
},
"content": {
"text/plain": "Hello World!",
}
}
}
}
response = paubox_client.send(mail)
print(response.status_code)
print(response.headers)
print(response.text)Allowing non-TLS message delivery
If you want to send non-PHI mail that does not need to be HIPAA-compliant, you can allow the message delivery to take place even if a TLS connection is unavailable.
This means the message will not be converted into a secure portal message when a nonTLS connection is encountered. For this, just pass allowNonTLS as True, as shown below:
Using Mail Class Helper
import paubox
from paubox.helpers.mail import Mail
paubox_client = paubox.PauboxApiClient()
recipients = ["recipient@example.com"]
from_ = "sender@yourdomain.com"
subject = "Testing!"
content = {
"text/plain": "Hello World!"
}
optional_headers = {
'reply_to': 'replies@yourdomain.com',
'allowNonTLS': True
}
mail = Mail(from_, subject, recipients, content, optional_headers)
response = paubox_client.send(mail.get())
print(response.status_code)
print(response.headers)
print(response.text)Without the Mail Class Helper
import paubox
paubox_client = paubox.PauboxApiClient()
mail = {
"data": {
"message": {
"recipients": [
"recipient@example.com"
],
'allowNonTLS': True,
"headers": {
"subject": "Testing!",
"from": "Sender <sender@yourdomain.com>",
"reply-to": "Reply-to <replies@yourdomain.com>"
},
"content": {
"text/plain": "Hello World!",
}
}
}
}
response = paubox_client.send(mail)
print(response.status_code)
print(response.headers)
print(response.text)Forcing Secure Notifications
Paubox Secure Notifications allow an extra layer of security, especially when coupled with an organization's requirement for message recipients to use 2-factor authentication to read messages (this setting is available to org administrators in the Paubox Admin Panel).
Instead of receiving an email with the message contents, the recipient will receive a notification email that they have a new message in Paubox.
Using Mail Class Helper
import paubox
from paubox.helpers.mail import Mail
paubox_client = paubox.PauboxApiClient()
recipients = ["recipient@example.com"]
from_ = "sender@yourdomain.com"
subject = "Testing!"
content = {
"text/plain": "Hello World!"
}
optional_headers = {
'reply_to': 'replies@yourdomain.com',
'forceSecureNotification': 'true'
}
mail = Mail(from_, subject, recipients, content, optional_headers)
response = paubox_client.send(mail.get())
print(response.status_code)
print(response.headers)
print(response.text)Without the Mail Class Helper
import paubox
paubox_client = paubox.PauboxApiClient()
mail = {
"data": {
"message": {
"recipients": [
"recipient@example.com"
],
'forceSecureNotification': 'true',
"headers": {
"subject": "Testing!",
"from": "Sender <sender@yourdomain.com>",
"reply-to": "Reply-to <replies@yourdomain.com>"
},
"content": {
"text/plain": "Hello World!"
}
}
}
}
response = paubox_client.send(mail)
print(response.status_code)
print(response.headers)
print(response.text)Sending Messages with all available headers
Using Mail Class Helper
import paubox
import base64
from paubox.helpers.mail import Mail
paubox_client = paubox.PauboxApiClient()
recipients = ["recipient@example.com"]
from_ = "sender@yourdomain.com"
subject = "Testing!"
attachment_content = base64.b64encode("Hello World!")
content = {
"text/plain": "Hello World!",
"text/html": "<html><body><h1>Hello World!</h1></body></html>"
}
optional_headers = {
"attachments": [{
"fileName": "the_file.txt",
"contentType": "text/plain",
"content": attachment_content
}],
'reply_to': 'replies@yourdomain.com',
'bcc': 'recipient2@example.com',
'cc':['recipientcc@example.com'],
'forceSecureNotification': 'true',
'allowNonTLS': True
}
mail = Mail(from_, subject, recipients, content, optional_headers)
response = paubox_client.send(mail.get())
print(response.status_code)
print(response.headers)
print(response.text)Without the Mail Class Helper
import paubox
import base64
paubox_client = paubox.PauboxApiClient()
attachment_content = base64.b64encode("Hello World!")
mail = {
"data": {
"message": {
"recipients": [
"recipient@example.com"
],
"bcc": ["recipient2@example.com"],
'cc':['recipientcc@example.com'],
'forceSecureNotification':'true',
'allowNonTLS': True,
"headers": {
"subject": "Testing!",
"from": "Sender <sender@yourdomain.com>",
"reply-to": "Reply-to <replies@yourdomain.com>"
},
"content": {
"text/plain": "Hello World!",
"text/html": "<html><body><h1>Hello World!</h1></body></html>"
},
"attachments": [{
"fileName": "the_file.txt",
"contentType": "text/plain",
"content": attachment_content
}]
}
}
}
response = paubox_client.send(mail)
print(response.status_code)
print(response.headers)
print(response.text)Checking Email Dispositions
The SOURCE_TRACKING_ID of a message is returned in the response.text of your send request. Use response.to_dict to access the response text as a dictionary.
import paubox
paubox_client = paubox.PauboxApiClient()
disposition_response = paubox_client.get("SOURCE_TRACKING_ID")
print(disposition_response.status_code)
print(disposition_response.headers)
print(disposition_response.text)Contributing
Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/Paubox/paubox-python.
License
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
Copyright
Copyright © 2019, Paubox Inc.
