Learning Python Networking - Second Edition

Sending a basic message

These are the basic steps we can follow for sending a basic message with smtplib:

1. To begin, we need to import the necessary classes: import smtplib.
2. The SMTP class represents a connection to an SMTP server. Next, we specify our email address, destination, and the message:

from_address = "[e-mail]" to_address = "[e-mail]" message = "Message"

3. To begin with the message format, we need to import the necessary classes:

from email.mime.text import MIMEText

4. These messages use the MIME standard, and so we must use the MIMEText class to build a plain text email. We implement an instance of the MIMEText class to build the message:

mime_message = MIMEText(message, "plain")mime_message["From"] = ...