# Python Email Handling (smtplib) The `smtplib` module defines an SMTP client session object that can be used to send mail to any Internet machine with an SMTP or ESMTP listener daemon. ## Importing the Module ```python import smtplib ``` ## Sending a Simple Email To send an email, you generally need to connect to an SMTP server (like Gmail, Outlook, etc.). ```python import smtplib sender_email = "my@gmail.com" receiver_email = "your@gmail.com" password = "password" message = """\ Subject: Hi there This message is sent from Python.""" try: # Create a secure SSL context # Note: For Gmail, you might need an App Password server = smtplib.SMTP_SSL('smtp.gmail.com', 465) server.login(sender_email, password) server.sendmail(sender_email, receiver_email, message) print("Email sent successfully!") except Exception as e: print(f"Something went wrong: {e}") finally: server.quit() ``` ## Sending HTML Email To send rich content like HTML, you should use the `email` package to construct the message. ```python import smtplib from email.mime.text import MIMEText from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart message = MIMEMultipart("alternative") message["Subject"] = "Multipart Test" message["From"] = "sender@email.com" message["To"] = "receiver@email.com" html = """\

Hi,
How are you?

""" part = MIMEText(html, "html") message.attach(part) # Send the message via SMTP as shown above using message.as_string() ``` [[programming/python/python]]