Programmatically sending an email is really a good tool for developer\u2019s paraphernalia. This is really handy when one automates task and wants to get notified by an email for success or failure. Lately I have written Python script to automate some jobs and incorporated method to send email notification. I thought to share this simple script here so my readers can get benefited.<\/p>\n
\n#!\/usr\/bin\/env python\nimport smtplib\nfrom email.mime.text import MIMEText\n\nEMAIL_SUBJECT = \"Email from Python script\"\nEMAIL_FROM = \"notification@code4reference.com\"\nEMAIL_RECEIVERS = ['your_email@gmail.com']\n\ndef listToStr(lst):\n \"\"\"This method makes comma separated list item string\"\"\"\n\n return ','.join(lst)\n\ndef getCurrentTime():\n return datetime.now().strftime(DB_DATE_FORMAT)\n\ndef send_email(msg):\n \"\"\"This method sends an email\"\"\" \n \n msg_header = \"From: \" + EMAIL_FROM + \"\\n\" + \\\n \"To: \" + listToStr(EMAIL_RECEIVERS) + \"\\n\" + \\\n \"Subject: \" + EMAIL_SUBJECT + \"\\n\"\n msg_body = msg_header + msg\n\n try:\n smtpObj = smtplib.SMTP('localhost')\n smtpObj.sendmail(EMAIL_FROM, EMAIL_RECEIVERS, msg_body)\n except SMTPException as error:\n print \"Error: unable to send email : {err}\".format(err=error)\n\ndef main():\n \"\"\"This is a simple main() function which demonstrate sending of email using smtplib.\"\"\"\n send_email(\"Test email was generated by Python using smtplib and email libraries\");\n\nif __name__ == \"__main__\":\n \"\"\"If this script is run as stand alone then call main() function.\"\"\"\n main()\n<\/pre>\nBefore running this script make sure your system has Mail Transfer Agent(MTA) configured. If it is not then read this post to configure Mail-server<\/a> on Ubuntu 12.04. You can also get the source code from github\/code4reference<\/a>.<\/p>\nHope this blog helped you in some way. If you like this blog then please share it. You can also leave your comment below. You can find Facebook page here<\/a>.<\/p>\nRelated topics<\/h4>\n