Motivation
Sending emails may seem to be a simple task. But there is some complicated stuff to consider:
- An email should be sent in a parallel thread, so it does not pause the whole project
- An email should be beautiful and support different formats — Text and HTML.
- Security issues. Does your email server require SSL? Sending from Gmail.
© You’ve Got Mail
Simple Email send
Sending emails is no rocket science in Python. As usual, batteries are already included, so we need to insert them:
import smtplib, ssl
from email.mime.text
import MIMETextfrom email.mime.multipart
import MIMEMultipart
Now, as batteries are in, we only need to press the red button:
server = smtplib.SMTP(email_smtp_server, email_port))
server.login(email_login, email_password)
server.sendmail(email_from, email_to, message.as_string())
Ooops, what are all these variables? Sure, we need to supply our code with the email properties, subject, and email text.
Email properties are the email_smtp_server, which is a simple string, and the email_port, which is an integer.
All the rest goes to the message variable, which is something more complex:
body = "<html>"
body += "<h2>Guten Tag!</h2><br><br>"
body += "<b>This is an automatic email.</b><br>"
body += "Please do not reply.<br><br>"
body += "Best regards,<br>"
body += "Your server.<br>"
body += '<img src="http://realitycheckbbs.org/images/fido.jpg">'
body += "</html>"
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