smtp client python code example

Example 1: email authentication python

import smtplib

server = smtplib.SMTP_SSL('smtp.gmail.com', 465)
server.login("your username", "your password")
server.sendmail(
  "[email protected]", 
  "[email protected]", 
  "this message is from python")
server.quit()

Example 2: send mail from python

#!/usr/bin/python

import smtplib

sender = '[email protected]'
receivers = ['[email protected]']

message = """From: From Person <[email protected]>
To: To Person <[email protected]>
Subject: SMTP e-mail test

This is a test e-mail message.
"""

try:
   smtpObj = smtplib.SMTP('localhost')
   smtpObj.sendmail(sender, receivers, message)         
   print "Successfully sent email"
except SMTPException:
   print "Error: unable to send email"