Python Network Programming

How to do it...

We can create an email message and attach Python's python-logo.gif file with the email message. Then, this message is sent from a Google account to a different account.

Listing 4.6 shows us how to send an email from your Google account:

#!/usr/bin/env python # Python Network Programming Cookbook, Second Edition -- Chapter - 5 # This program is optimized for Python 2.7.12 and Python 3.5.2. # It may run on any other version with/without modifications. import argparse import os import getpass import re import sys import smtplib from email.mime.image import MIMEImage from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart from email.mime.text import MIMEText SMTP_SERVER = 'smtp.gmail.com' SMTP_PORT = 587 def send_email(sender, recipient): ...