[Tutor] Sending Email

[Kent Johnson]

Steve Willoughby wrote:

> Python comes with an smtplib module which works very well.  You say 
> you want plain text, so just do this:
> 
> import smtplib
> 
> mail = smtplib.SMTP(mailhost_name)
> mail.sendmail(from_addr, to_addr, msg)
> mail.quit()

One gotcha is that msg must also include From and Two headers. A 
slightly longer example is here:
http://docs.python.org/lib/SMTP-example.html

Kent