Python - Sending Email using SMTP
Categories: Python
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is a protocol, which handles sending e-mail and routing e-mail between mail servers.
Python provides smtplib module, which defines an SMTP client session object that can be used to send mail to any Internet machine with an SMTP or ESMTP listener daemon.
Here is a simple syntax to create one SMTP object, which can later be used to send an e-mail −
import smtplib
smtpObj = smtplib.SMTP( [host [, port [, local_hostname]]] )
Here is the detail of the parameters −
host − This is the host running your SMTP server. You can specify IP address of the host or a domain name like tutorialspoint.com. This is optional argument.
port − If you are providing host argument, then you need to specify a port, where SMTP server is listening. Usually this port would be 25.
local_hostname − If your SMTP server is running on your local machine, then you can specify just localhost as of this option.