How to send an Email in Python

Published on: 22nd September 2018

This tutorial demonstrates Python way of sending mails with both outlook and Gmail account.

Abstract

In this tutorial we will send an Email using Outlook and Gmail account.

import smtplib
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
  
# creates SMTP session
#smtp_server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587) -- if you are Gmail sender then you can use this
smtp_server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp-mail.outlook.com', 587) 
  
# start TLS(Transport Layer Security) for security 
smtp_server.starttls() 
  
# Authentication 
smtp_server.login("Sender_email_address", "senders_password")

from_address = "Sender_email_address"
to_address = "Receiver_email_address"

# Create message container - the correct MIME type is multipart/alternative.
msg = MIMEMultipart('alternative')
msg['Subject'] = "All Programming tutorials(https://www.allprogrammingtutorials.com)"
msg['From'] = from_address
msg['To'] = to_address

# Create the body of the message (an HTML version).
html = """\
<html>
  <head></head>
  <body>
    <p>Hello!<p><br>
    <p>you can check it out <a href="https://www.allprogrammingtutorials.com">here</a> our "send email using Python" tutorial.</p>
  </body>
</html>
"""

# Record the MIME type text/html.
html_content = MIMEText(html, 'html')

# Attach parts into message container.
msg.attach(html_content)
print "Preparing"

# sendmail function takes 3 arguments: sender's address, recipient's address
# and message to send - here it is sent as one string.
smtp_server.sendmail(from_address, to_address, msg.as_string())

print "Done"
smtp_server.quit()

Here in above mention code, we are using three modules (smtplib, MIMEMultipart and MIMEText) and all these three modules are part of the basic python librairies, no need to install external librairies.

Note: If you not able to send email from gmail account then please allow this setting in your gmail account: less secure apps

Thank you for reading through the tutorial. In case of any feedback/questions/concerns, you can communicate same to us through your comments and we shall get back to you as soon as possible.

Posted By: Sumit Sain

Published on: 22nd September 2018

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