python: How to send email using smtplib
This article shows how to send email by using python’s smtplib:
1. The environment
Here is the python version I used.
➜ ~ python --version
Python 2.7.10
2. The Code
Now we want to send email using python’s smtplib, here is the code:
# coding=UTF-8
"""
send email example.
"""
import smtplib
SERVER = "mail.xxx.com"
FROM = "[email protected]"
TO = ["[email protected]","[email protected]"] # must be a list
SUBJECT = "The subject of email"
TEXT = "The content of email"
# Prepare actual message
message = """\
From: %s
To: %s
Subject: %s
%s
""" % (FROM, ", ".join(TO), SUBJECT, TEXT)
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# Send the mail
server = smtplib.SMTP(SERVER)
server.login("[email protected]", "xxxxxxx")
server.sendmail(FROM, TO, message)
print "send mail ok"
server.quit()
3. Run the example
Now run example, we got this
send mail ok
As the upper code shown, we must provice smtplib with follows:
- the smtp server address including the ip and port
- the smtp account
- the smtp password
And then , we supply the subject/content/from/to, be care of the to, it must be a list.
You can find detail documents about the python smtplib here: