My go-to python script for automatic mail jobs

auto_mailer.py

#!/usr/bin/python
 
import smtplib
from email.MIMEMultipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.MIMEBase import MIMEBase
from email.MIMEText import MIMEText
from email import Encoders
import os
 
gmail_user = "[email protected]"
gmail_pwd = "password"
 
def mail(to, subject, text, attach=None):
   msg = MIMEMultipart()
 
   msg['From'] = gmail_user
   msg['To'] = to
   msg['Subject'] = subject
 
   msg.attach(MIMEText(text))
 
   if attach:
        part = MIMEBase('application', 'octet-stream')
        part.set_payload(open(attach, 'rb').read())
        Encoders.encode_base64(part)
        part.add_header('Content-Disposition',
            'attachment; filename="{}"'.format(os.path.basename(attach)))
        msg.attach(part)
 
   mailServer = smtplib.SMTP("smtp.gmail.com", 587)
   mailServer.ehlo()
   mailServer.starttls()
   mailServer.ehlo()
   mailServer.login(gmail_user, gmail_pwd)
   mailServer.sendmail(gmail_user, to, msg.as_string())
   # Should be mailServer.quit(), but that crashes...
   mailServer.close()