Sending Mail from Python using SMTP

Sending Mail from Python using SMTP : #

I’m using the following method to send mail from Python using SMTP. Is it the right method to use or are there gotchas I’m missing ?

from smtplib import SMTP
import datetime

debuglevel = 0

smtp = SMTP()
smtp.set_debuglevel(debuglevel)
smtp.connect(‘YOUR.MAIL.SERVER’, 26)
smtp.login(‘USERNAME@DOMAIN’, ‘PASSWORD’)

from_addr = “John Doe <john@doe.net>”
to_addr = “foo@bar.com”

subj = “hello”
date = datetime.datetime.now().strftime( “%d/%m/%Y %H:%M” )

message_text = “Hello\nThis is a mail from your server\n\nBye\n”

msg = “From: %s\nTo: %s\nSubject: %s\nDate: %s\n\n%s”
% ( from_addr, to_addr, subj, date, message_text )

smtp.sendmail(from_addr, to_addr, msg)
smtp.quit()

Here is Some Solutions :

Solution 1: #

#! /usr/local/bin/python

SMTPserver = ‘smtp.att.yahoo.com’
sender = ‘me@my_email_domain.net’
destination = [‘recipient@her_email_domain.com’]

USERNAME = “USER_NAME_FOR_INTERNET_SERVICE_PROVIDER”
PASSWORD = “PASSWORD_INTERNET_SERVICE_PROVIDER”

# typical values for text_subtype are plain, html, xml
text_subtype = ‘plain’

content=”””\
Test message
“””

subject=”Sent from Python”

import sys
import os
import re

from smtplib import SMTP_SSL as SMTP # this invokes the secure SMTP protocol (port 465, uses SSL)
# from smtplib import SMTP # use this for standard SMTP protocol (port 25, no encryption)

# old version
# from email.MIMEText import MIMEText
from email.mime.text import MIMEText

try:
msg = MIMEText(content, text_subtype)
msg[‘Subject’]= subject
msg[‘From’] = sender # some SMTP servers will do this automatically, not all

conn = SMTP(SMTPserver)
conn.set_debuglevel(False)
conn.login(USERNAME, PASSWORD)
try:
conn.sendmail(sender, destination, msg.as_string())
finally:
conn.quit()

except:
sys.exit( “mail failed; %s” % “CUSTOM_ERROR” ) # give an error message

Solution 2: #

import smtplib
from email.MIMEMultipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.MIMEText import MIMEText

msg = MIMEMultipart()
msg[‘From’] = ‘me@gmail.com’
msg[‘To’] = ‘you@gmail.com’
msg[‘Subject’] = ‘simple email in python’
message = ‘here is the email’
msg.attach(MIMEText(message))

mailserver = smtplib.SMTP(‘smtp.gmail.com’,587)
# identify ourselves to smtp gmail client
mailserver.ehlo()
# secure our email with tls encryption
mailserver.starttls()
# re-identify ourselves as an encrypted connection
mailserver.ehlo()
mailserver.login(‘me@gmail.com’, ‘mypassword’)

mailserver.sendmail(‘me@gmail.com’,’you@gmail.com’,msg.as_string())

mailserver.quit()

Solution 3: #

import smtplib

to = ‘mkyong2002@yahoo.com’
gmail_user = ‘mkyong2002@gmail.com’
gmail_pwd = ‘yourpassword’
smtpserver = smtplib.SMTP(“smtp.gmail.com”,587)
smtpserver.ehlo()
smtpserver.starttls()
smtpserver.ehlo()
smtpserver.login(gmail_user, gmail_pwd)
header = ‘To:’ + to + ‘\n’ + ‘From: ‘ + gmail_user + ‘\n’ + ‘Subject:testing \n’
print header
msg = header + ‘\n this is test msg from mkyong.com \n\n’
smtpserver.sendmail(gmail_user, to, msg)
print ‘done!’
smtpserver.quit()

Solution 4: #

import smtplib, ssl

smtp_server = “smtp.gmail.com”
port = 587 # For starttls
sender_email = “sender@email”
receiver_email = “receiver@email”
password = “<your password here>”
message = “”” Subject: Hi there

This message is sent from Python.”””

# Create a secure SSL context
context = ssl.create_default_context()

# Try to log in to server and send email
server = smtplib.SMTP(smtp_server,port)

try:
server.ehlo() # Can be omitted
server.starttls(context=context) # Secure the connection
server.ehlo() # Can be omitted
server.login(sender_email, password)
server.sendmail(sender_email, receiver_email, message)
except Exception as e:
# Print any error messages to stdout
print(e)
finally:
server.quit()