Scribd
Upload
82 views3 pages

The Smtplib Module Defines An SMTP Client Session Object That Can Be Used To Send Mail To Any Internet Machine With An SMTP or ESMTP Listener Daemon

Uploaded by

tomscott
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
82 views3 pages

The Smtplib Module Defines An SMTP Client Session Object That Can Be Used To Send Mail To Any Internet Machine With An SMTP or ESMTP Listener Daemon

Uploaded by

tomscott
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 3

The smtplib module defines an SMTP client session object that can be

used to send mail to any Internet machine with an SMTP or ESMTP


listener daemon.

SMTP stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. The smtplib modules is
useful for communicating with mail servers to send mail.

Sending mail is done with Python’s smtplib using an SMTP server.

Actual usage varies depending on complexity of the email and settings of


the email server, the instructions here are based on sending email through
Gmail.

smtplib Usage
This example is taken from this post at wikibooks.org

"""The first step is to create an SMTP object, each


object is used for connection
with one server."""

import smtplib
server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587)

#Next, log in to the server


server.login("youremailusername", "password")

#Send the mail


msg = "
Hello!" # The /n separates the message from the headers
server.sendmail("[email protected]", "[email protected]",
msg)
To include a From, To and Subject headers, we should use the email
package, since smtplib does not modify the contents or headers at all.

Email Package Overview


Python’s email package contains many classes and functions for
composing and parsing email messages.
Email Package Usage
We start by only importing only the classes we need, this also saves us
from having to use the full module name later.

from email.MIMEMultipart import MIMEMultipart


from email.MIMEText import MIMEText
Then we compose some of the basic message headers:

fromaddr = "[email protected]"
toaddr = "[email protected]"
msg = MIMEMultipart()
msg['From'] = fromaddr
msg['To'] = toaddr
msg['Subject'] = "Python email"
Next, we attach the body of the email to the MIME message:

body = "Python test mail"


msg.attach(MIMEText(body, 'plain'))
For sending the mail, we have to convert the object to a string, and then
use the same prodecure as above to send using the SMTP server..

import smtplib
server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587)
server.ehlo()
server.starttls()
server.ehlo()
server.login("youremailusername", "password")
text = msg.as_string()
server.sendmail(fromaddr, toaddr, text)
Verify an email address
The SMTP protocol includes a command to ask a server whether an
address is valid. Usually VRFY is disabled to prevent spammers from
finding legitimate email addresses, but if it is enabled you can ask the
server about an address and receive a status code indicating validity along
with the user’s full name.

This example is based on this post


import smtplib

server = smtplib.SMTP('mail')
server.set_debuglevel(True) # show communication with
the server
try:
dhellmann_result = server.verify('dhellmann')
notthere_result = server.verify('notthere')
finally:
server.quit()

print 'dhellmann:', dhellmann_result


print 'notthere :', notthere_resul

You might also like