Python send mail using SMTP

SMTP – Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is used for sending e-mail and routing e-mail between mail servers.

There is a module in python called stmplib which defines an SMTP client session object.

Here is the example

#!/usr/bin/python

import smtplib

client = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587)
sender='your mail id'
password ='your mail password'
recipient ='recipient mail id '
subject ='subject of your mail'

body ="<h1>Testing </h1><p>sample mail testing, using python SMTP</p>"

headers = ["From: "+sender, 
                     "Subject:"+subject, 
                     "To:"+recipient,
                      "MIME-Version:1.0", 
                      "Content-Type: text/html"]
headers = "\r\n".join(headers)
client.ehlo()
client.starttls()
client.ehlo
client.login(sender, password)

client.sendmail(sender, recipient, headers+"\r\n\r\n"+body)
client.quit()