I built simplemail because I was tired of having to specify so many options to smtplib and email just to send myself a simple message!
NONE! This should work out-of-the-box on a vanilla Python install. It was tested on Python 2.7.6 on a Mac OS X machine.
WARNING There is a maxsize parameter which defaults to 100000 characters. If your message is getting something that looks like <Rest of message truncated because of size>, this is why. Remove at your own risk though... sometimes messages larger than this are marked spam, or rejected outright by the SMTP server(s).
# plain text
send_message(message='This is a test... this is only a test.')
# HTML
send_html_message(message="<h1>Hello HTML world!</h1>")
# with attachment
send_html_message(message="<h1>Check out this awesome Lynx!</h1>", attachments=['./lynx.jpg'])You should look at simpleMail.py in the source, and set your options at the top there accordingly.
If you are using Google, you will need to use a generated password, and your gmail address as your username. Here's a link to the place in Google to generate app passwords:
https://security.google.com/settings/security/apppasswords
In the future, I may support a 'config.py', or other configruation options. For now, this works for me. :)
If you have feedback or suggestions, please leave me a message!
- Configuration seperate from the code.
- Better handling of starttls() if we don't need it.
- Randy - My buddy at Alco for the inspiration.
- Pixabay - https://pixabay.com/en/lynx-bobcat-wildlife-predator-1019069/ where I got my AWESOME Lynx picture for my test attachment.