Send Mail from your Gmail address using Python

Howdy Ho!

Yet another sleepy evening and I find myself almost dozing off. Quick! I need something simple but not boring to do!

That’s right, we’ll try to send an email from our Gmail address using Python!

As always, I love making assumptions. I am going to go on ahead and assume that you have Python installed and know how to run Python programs.

The first thing is to create a new project folder of course.

Gmail uses the SMTP protocol to send mail so we’ll need to get the SMTP library for python. We do that by running:

$pip install   smtplib

Once it finishes installing, we can continue.

We begin by importing the smtp library, defining the source and destination addresses, then we define our mail in a json

source = 'user1@gmail.com'
dest  = 'user2@gmail.com'
word = "\r\n".join([  
 "source: user1@gmail.com",  
 "To: user2@gmail.com",  
 "Subject: Buenas dias",  
 "",  
 "Yo soy Pato"  
 ])

Then we proceed to write the code that sends the email

user = 'user1@gmail.com'
passw = 'xxxxxxx'
server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com:587')
server.ehlo()
server.starttls()
server.login(user,passw)
server.sendmail(source, dest, word)
server.quit()

The whole code:

That’s it! Go to your destination and check, you should find a new email.

All code in this article is available on this Github repo.

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