Python - Sending emails using smtplib

Here is a snippet that will send emails to one or more recipients. It will also send the name alongside the FROM email address.

Just plug in the SMTP server details and toggle AUTH if required.


Send an email to one or more recipients

Code Snippet

1. import smtplib
2. import email.utils
3. from email.mime.text import MIMEText
4. from email.utils import formataddr
5.  
6.  
7. def emailer():
8.  
9.             # Email Settings
10.             MESSAGEBODY = 'Test Email body.'
11.             SUBJECT = 'Test Email Subject'
12.             FROM = ('Some User', 'donotreply@someurl.com')
13.             TO = ['recipient1@someurl.com', 'recipient2@someurl.com']
14.  
15.             # SMTP Settings
16.             smtpserver = 'SMTP SERVER ADDRESS'
17.             smtpport = 25
18.             AUTHREQUIRED = 0   # If you need to use SMTP AUTH set to 1
19.             smtpuser = 'foo'  # For SMTP AUTH, set SMTP username here
20.             smtppass = 'bar'   # For SMTP AUTH, set SMTP password here
21.  
22.             # Create the message
23.             msg = MIMEText(MESSAGEBODY)
24.             msg['To'] = ', '.join(TO)
25.             msg['From'] = email.utils.formataddr(FROM)
26.             msg['Subject'] = SUBJECT
27.            
28.             try:
29.                 smtpObj = smtplib.SMTP(smtpserver, smtpport)
30.            
31.                 if AUTHREQUIRED:
32.                     session.login(smtpuser, smtppass)
33.            
34.                 smtpObj.sendmail(msg['From'], TO, msg.as_string())
35.                
36.                 print "Email has been sent successfully to: " + msg['To']
37.             except Exception, err:
38.                 print "Error: unable to send error email notification. %s"  % str(err)
39.  
40.  
41.  
42. # Invoke Emailer
43. emailer()

End of Code Snippet

Python Email Examples
http://docs.python.org/library/email-examples.html