Modern Python Standard Library Cookbook

How to do it...

Sending an email is a three-step process:

1. Contact the SMTP server and authenticate to it
2. Prepare the email itself
3. Provide the email to the SMTP server

All three phases are covered in the Python standard library and we just need to wrap them up for convenience in an easier interface:

from email.header import Header from email.mime.text import MIMEText from email.utils import parseaddr, formataddr from smtplib import SMTP class EmailSender: def __init__(self, host="localhost", port=25, login="", password=""): self._host = host self._port = int(port) self._login = login self._password = password def send(self, sender, recipient, subject, body): header_charset = 'UTF-8' body_charset = 'UTF-8' sender_name, sender_addr = parseaddr(sender) ...