Python sendmail

.gitignore

email_details.cfg

sendmail.py

""" This relies on a 'email_details.cfg' file with the following settings

[EmailDetails]
host: smtp.mydomain.com
port: 587
username: username
password: password
recipients: [email protected]
sender: [email protected]

"""

# Import smtplib for the actual sending function
import smtplib

# Import the email modules we'll need
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
import re

import ConfigParser

def validateEmail(email):
    if len(email) > 7:
        if re.match("^.+\\@(\\[?)[a-zA-Z0-9\\-\\.]+\\.([a-zA-Z]{2,3}|[0-9]{1,3})(\\]?)$", email) != None:
            return 1
    return 0

# Secret Details Config
email_details = 'email_details.cfg'

config = ConfigParser.RawConfigParser()
config.read(email_details)

HOST = config.get('EmailDetails', 'host')
PORT = config.getint('EmailDetails', 'port')
USERNAME = config.get('EmailDetails', 'username')
PASSWORD = config.get('EmailDetails', 'password')
RECIPIENTS = config.get('EmailDetails', 'recipients')
SENDER = config.get('EmailDetails', 'sender')

subject = 'Test Subject'
message = 'Test Message'
recipients = RECIPIENTS.split(',')

s = smtplib.SMTP(HOST, PORT)
# s.ehlo()
s.starttls()
s.login(USERNAME, PASSWORD)

for recipient in recipients:
    if validateEmail(recipient):

        msg = MIMEText(message)
        msg['Subject'] = subject
        msg['From'] = SENDER
        msg['To'] = recipient
        print('msgasstring: %s' %msg.as_string())
        s.sendmail(SENDER, [recipient], msg.as_string())
        
s.quit()