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
import smtplibSending a Simple Email
To send an email, you generally need to connect to an SMTP server (like Gmail, Outlook, etc.).
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.
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 = """\
<html>
<body>
<p>Hi,<br>
How are you?<br>
</p>
</body>
</html>
"""
part = MIMEText(html, "html")
message.attach(part)
# Send the message via SMTP as shown above using message.as_string()