![import smtplib
smtpObj = smtplib.SMTP( [host [, port [,local_hostname]]] )
host: This is the host running your SMTP server. You can
specifiy IP address of the host or a domain name like
tutorialspoint.com. This is optional argument.
●
port: If you are providing host argument, then you need to
specify a port, where SMTP server is listening. Usually
this port would be 25.
●
local_hostname: If your SMTP server is running on your
local machine, then you can specify just localhost as of
this option.](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/pythonsession11-140510053219-phpapp02/85/Python-session-11-By-Shanmugam-4-320.jpg)
![import smtplib
sender = 'from@fromdomain.com'
receivers = ['to@todomain.com']
message = """From: From Person
<from@fromdomain.com>
To: To Person <to@todomain.com>
Subject: SMTP e-mail test
This is a test e-mail message.
"""](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/pythonsession11-140510053219-phpapp02/85/Python-session-11-By-Shanmugam-6-320.jpg)
Python session.11 By Shanmugam
- 2. AGENDA Email using SMTP HTML e-mail
- 3. Python Sending Email using SMTP ● Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is a protocol, which handles sending e-mail and routing e-mail between mail servers. ● Python provides smtplib module, which defines an SMTP client session object that can be used to send mail to any Internet machine with an SMTP.
- 4. import smtplib smtpObj = smtplib.SMTP( [host [, port [,local_hostname]]] ) host: This is the host running your SMTP server. You can specifiy IP address of the host or a domain name like tutorialspoint.com. This is optional argument. ● port: If you are providing host argument, then you need to specify a port, where SMTP server is listening. Usually this port would be 25. ● local_hostname: If your SMTP server is running on your local machine, then you can specify just localhost as of this option.
- 5. ● An SMTP object has an instance method called sendmail, which will typically be used to do the work of mailing a message. It takes three parameters: ● The sender - A string with the address of the sender. ● The receivers - A list of strings, one for each recipient. ● The message - A message as a string formatted as specified in the various RFCs.
- 6. 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. """
- 7. try: smtpObj = smtplib.SMTP('localhost') smtpObj.sendmail(sender, receivers, message) print "Successfully sent email" except SMTPException: print "Error: unable to send email"
- 8. Sending an HTML e-mail using Python: While sending an e-mail message, you can specify a Mime version, content type and character set to send an HTML e-mail. import smtplib message = """From: From Person <[email protected]> To: To Person <[email protected]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/html Subject: SMTP HTML e-mail test This is an e-mail message to be sent in HTML format
- 9. <b>This is HTML message.</b> <h1>This is headline.</h1> """ try: smtpObj = smtplib.SMTP('localhost') smtpObj.sendmail(sender, receivers, message) print "Successfully sent email" except SMTPException: print "Error: unable to send email"