easysmtp

EasySMTP: A simple SMTP client

EasySMTP is a simple and lightweight SMTP client written in pure Python.It is distributed as a single file module and has no dependencies other than the Python Standard Library.

Features

• Send plain text email
• Send HTML email
• Send email with attachments
• Guess MIME type of attachments
• Send email with embedded images
• Built-in well-known SMTP servers configuration

Installation

Install the latest stable release with pip install easysmtp or download easysmtp.py into your project.

Usage

To use it, you need to enable SMTP for your email. You can find instructions on how to enable SMTP for your email service provider on the internet.

import easysmtp


from_addr = '[e-mail]'
smtp_username = from_addr # SMTP login username. It's usually your email address.
smtp_password = 'password'

smtp = easysmtp.EasySMTP()
smtp.config(from_addr,
            username=smtp_username, 
            password=smtp_password,)

to_addr = '[e-mail]'
subject = 'Hello'

# Send a plain text email
smtp.send_mail(from_addr, to_addr, subject, body='Hello world!')

# Send an HTML email
smtp.send_mail(from_addr, to_addr, subject, html_body='<h1>Hello world!</h1>')

# Send an email with attachments
smtp.send_mail(from_addr, to_addr, subject, body='Hello world!', attachments=['README.md'])

# Send an email with embedded images
html_body = '<p>Hello world!</p><img src="cid:test.png">'
smtp.send_mail(from_addr, to_addr, subject, html_body=html_body, attachments=['test.png'])

# or more control with attachment cid
attachments = [Attachment("tests/测试.png", cid="test.png")]
smtp.send_mail(from_addr, to_addr, subject, html_body=html_body, attachments=attachments)

Built-in SMTP servers

• 126.com
• 163.com
• gmail.com
• outlook.com
• qq.com
• sina.com
• yahoo.com