How to send mails using python (SMTP)?

[skris]

Hi,
I started learning python a month ago.My problem now is, I need to send a
mail to my gmail account using a python script.Can this be done? I did try
out a lot of python codes but none of them really worked. Please help me
out. Also kindly mention the names of some good python books for a beginner.

[Subsciber123]

Dive into Python should be a good book. http://www.diveintopython.org/

[Elias Alhanatis]

Hello!

I think this code is what you need.Adjust it to your needs.....
Sorry , but i dont remember where i got it from......

 
import smtplib
 
smtpserver = 'foo.foo.foo'
AUTHREQUIRED = 1 # if you need to use SMTP AUTH set to 1
smtpuser = 'spam'  # for SMTP AUTH, set SMTP username here
smtppass = 'egs'  # for SMTP AUTH, set SMTP password here
 
RECIPIENTS = ['[e-mail]']
SENDER = '[e-mail]'
mssg = "The Message"
 
session = smtplib.SMTP(smtpserver)
if AUTHREQUIRED:
    session.login(smtpuser, smtppass)
smtpresult = session.sendmail(SENDER, RECIPIENTS, mssg)
 
if smtpresult:
    errstr = ""
    for recip in smtpresult.keys():
        errstr = """Could not delivery mail to: %s
        Server said: %s %s %s""" % (recip, smtpresult[recip][0], smtpresult[recip][1], errstr)
    raise smtplib.SMTPException, errstr
 

Elias

[jlm699]

You can try searching bytes.com for the phrase "Python SMTP" for older posts on this topic. Here's the most recent.

HTH