Randomly select and email a daily Stoic meditation from Marcus Aurelius: a simple exercise in file reading and sending gmail with Python.

email_stoic_meditation.py

# Builds on the random daily Stoic meditation gist at:
# https://gist.github.com/AO8/a33b0e70a1885679279f0533d4f5d8dc
# Enable less secure apps in gmail before attempting to send

import random
import smtplib
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
from datetime import datetime

random.seed(datetime.now())

def send_gmail(from_addr, password, to_addr, subject, body):
    # Prepare email
    msg = MIMEText(body)
    msg["Subject"] = subject
    msg["From"] = from_addr
    msg["To"] = to_addr
    # Connect, send, quit
    s = smtplib.SMTP("smtp.gmail.com: 587")
    s.ehlo()
    s.starttls()
    s.login(from_addr, password)
    s.send_message(msg)
    s.quit()
    
# Separate txt file containing favorite passages from
# Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

with open("meditations.txt", encoding="utf8") as f:
    contents = f.readlines()

body = random.choice(contents) + "\n" + "~ Marcus A."
subject = body[0:30] + "..."

# Read email addresses in separate txt file

with open("subscribers.txt", encoding="utf8") as f:
    subscribers = f.readlines()

for subscriber in subscribers:
    send_gmail("#your gmail address",
               "#your password",
               subscriber,
               subject,
               body)