The "from" quirk is because it gets parsed as a header, I think.
Sending is pretty simple, you should be OK. It may be worth setting up an
outgoing-only mail server like postfix that only listens in localhost,
gmail can be fussy about quotas.
On Sunday, May 4, 2014, Brian van den Broek <brian.van.den.br...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am playing with the smtp and email modules from the standard library
> of Python 2.7.3 (I also want it to run on 2.6.6). I've not found the
> going easy; the SMTP and RFC 2822 standards are not ones I have worked
> with before. I have something that works, but I am not confident I am
> doing the right thing. For that matter, I am not very confident that I
> am not doing the wrong thing.
>
> I would very much appreciate some more experienced eyes on the code below.
> In addition to any outright errors concerning interaction with an SMTP
> server and constructing a MIME message, I would of course also welcome
> style comments. (Preemptively, I will note it isn't obvious I ought to
> have gone OOP with this.)
>
> I should also mention that I am writing this code as part of some
> tools to send myself and others reminder emails, the tools to be run
> from a cron job. I am storing an actual email account password in
> plaintext in my code. But, the account in question is one established
> just for the purpose of the reminder project and similar projects; it
> is not an account which houses my plans for world domination or the
> like. That said, I have removed the account name and password string
> below; it will thus require some adjustments to run for testing.
>
> And, as I side note, could anyone explain why changing a first world
> of a body line 'From' to '>From' is the preferred standard? I
> understand what the problem is that is being solved, but as most email
> clients interpret a leading '>' as an indication of quoting, I would
> have thought ' From' or something like '-From' would have been better.
> If I have my own code deal with the problem in one of these ways, will
> I be breaking anything?
>
> Anyway, thanks and best,
>
> Brian vdB
>
> import smtplib
>
> class SMTPSender(object):
> def __init__(self, server, port, sender, password, messages):
> self.server = server
> self.port = port
> self.sender = sender
> self.password = password
> self.messages = messages
>
> self._connect()
> try:
> self._send()
> finally:
> self._logout()
>
> def _connect(self):
> self.session = smtplib.SMTP(server, port)
> self.session.ehlo()
> self.session.starttls()
> self.session.ehlo
> self.session.login(sender, password)
>
> def _send(self):
> for message in self.messages:
> to_addresses = message["To"].split(",")
> self.session.sendmail(sender, to_addresses,
> message.as_string())
>
> def _logout(self):
> self.session.quit()
>
> if __name__ == "__main__":
> server = "smtp.gmail.com"
> port = 587
> sender = "myfunnyhan...@gmail.com <javascript:;>"
> password = "mysecret"
>
> from email.mime.text import MIMEText
> from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
>
> # Quick and dirty test message
> msg = MIMEMultipart("alternative")
> msg["Subject"] = "SMTP Test MIMEText plain"
> msg["From"] = sender # Setting to anything but sender gets removed by
> gmail.
> msg["To"] = "some...@example.com <javascript:;>,
> someonee...@example.com <javascript:;>"
> msg["Reply-to"] = "answerh...@example.com <javascript:;>"
> body = "\n\n".join(["Test msg MIME Text",
> "From is a problem when occuring as the first word of a line."])
> msg.attach(MIMEText(body, "plain"))
>
> sender = SMTPSender(server, port, sender, password, [msg,])
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