gmail_send_email.py

import smtplib
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.mime.base import MIMEBase
from email import encoders

email_user = 'your_email'
email_password = 'your_password'
email_send = 'recipient_email'

subject = 'subject'

msg = MIMEMultipart()
msg['From'] = email_user
msg['To'] = email_send
msg['Subject'] = subject

body = 'Hi there, sending this email from Python!'
msg.attach(MIMEText(body,'plain'))

filename='filename'
attachment  =open(filename,'rb')

part = MIMEBase('application','octet-stream')
part.set_payload((attachment).read())
encoders.encode_base64(part)
part.add_header('Content-Disposition',"attachment; filename= "+filename)

msg.attach(part)
text = msg.as_string()
server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com',587)
server.starttls()
server.login(email_user,email_password)


server.sendmail(email_user,email_send,text)
server.quit()

gmail_send_email_2

import os
import smtplib
import sys
from email import encoders
from email.mime.base import MIMEBase
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.mime.text import MIMEText

COMMASPACE = ', '
gmail_password = os.environ['gmail_pass']


def email(
  subject: str = '',
  message: str = 'Hi!',
  attachments: list = None,
  sender: 'email' = '[email protected]',
  *recipients,):
    """ Send an email with optional attachments (binary allowed) using my Gmail account. """
    recipients = [*recipients]

    # Create the enclosing (outer) message
    outer = MIMEMultipart()
    outer['Subject'] = subject
    outer['To'] = COMMASPACE.join(recipients)
    outer['From'] = sender
    outer.preamble = 'You will not see this in a MIME-aware mail reader.\n'

    # Add the body of the email
    email_body = MIMEText(message, 'plain')
    outer.attach(email_body)

    # Add the attachments to the message
    if attachments:
        for file in attachments:
            try:
                with open(file, 'rb') as fp:
                    msg = MIMEBase('application', "octet-stream")
                    msg.set_payload(fp.read())
                encoders.encode_base64(msg)
                msg.add_header('Content-Disposition', 'attachment',
                               filename=os.path.basename(file))
                outer.attach(msg)
            except:
                print("Unable to open one of the attachments. Error: ",
                      sys.exc_info()[0])
                raise

    composed = outer.as_string()

    # Send the email
    try:
        with smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587) as s:
            s.ehlo()
            s.starttls()
            s.ehlo()
            s.login(sender, gmail_password)
            s.sendmail(sender, recipients, composed)
            s.close()
        print("Email sent!")
    except:
        print("Unable to send the email. Error: ", sys.exc_info()[0])
        raise