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Learning Python Networking
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Learning Python Networking

by Sam Washington
June 2015
Intermediate to advanced
320 pages
7h 18m
English
Packt Publishing
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Sending e-mails with SMTP

We can send an e-mail from a Python script by using smtplib and e-mail packages. The smtplib module provides an SMTP objects which is used for sending mail by using either an SMTP or an Extended SMTP (ESMTP) protocol. The e-mail module helps us in constructing the e-mail messages with the help of the various header information and attachments. This module conforms to the Internet Message Format (IMF) described at http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2822.html.

Composing an e-mail message

Let us construct the e-mail message by using classes from the email module. The email.mime module provides classes for creating the e-mail and MIME objects from scratch. MIME is an acronym for Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions. This is an ...

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