Sending e-mail

[Mike Driscoll]

On Aug 29, 11:44 am, peter.jones.... at gmail.com wrote:
> On Aug 28, 3:23 pm, gordyt <gor... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Peter here is an example.  I just tried it and it works fine.
>
> > from smtplib import SMTP
> > HOST = "smtp.gmail.com"
> > PORT = 587
> > ACCOUNT = ""  # put your gmail email account name here
> > PASSWORD = ""  # put your gmail email account password here
>
> > def send_email(to_addrs, subject, msg):
> >     server = SMTP(HOST,PORT)
> >     server.set_debuglevel(1)    # you don't need this
> >     server.ehlo()
> >     server.starttls()
> >     server.ehlo()
> >     server.login(ACCOUNT, PASSWORD)
> >     server.sendmail(ACCOUNT, to_addrs,
> >         """From: %s\r\nTo: %s\r\nSubject: %s\r\n\r\n%s\r\n.\r\n""" % (
> >             ACCOUNT, ",".join(to_addrs), subject, msg
> >         )
> >     )
> >     server.quit()
>
> > if __name__ == "__main__":
> >     send_email( ['some... at somewhere.com'], 'this is just a test',
> >         "hello world!" )
>
> Thanks to everyone who's replied. gordyt, I didn't dare dream anyone
> would hand me fully functional source code, so thank you very much for
> that. Unfortunately, it doesn't work for me, likely because of some
> complication from my company's firewall.
>
> All things considered, going through Gmail is an unnecessary step if I
> can run a server on my own PC. Is there any hope of this working? Can
> it be done easily? Is there anything I should know about the
> SMTPServer object, and are there any other modules I'd need?
>
> Thanks again for all the help.

I would recommend looking at the email module too as it is a little
bit more flexible:

http://docs.python.org/lib/module-email.html

You could also see how I do it in wxPython: http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/?p=38

My script is Windows only at the moment.

Mike