Send an email through Gmail programmatically using Python's smtplib. Code modified from http://kutuma.blogspot.com/2007/08/sending-emails-via-gmail-with-python.html

mailer.py

#!/usr/bin/python
# Adapted from http://kutuma.blogspot.com/2007/08/sending-emails-via-gmail-with-python.html

import getpass
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 = "you@should.login"
gmail_pwd = "wrong password"

def login(user):
   global gmail_user, gmail_pwd
   gmail_user = user
   gmail_pwd = getpass.getpass('Password for %s: ' % gmail_user)

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="%s"' % 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())
   mailServer.close()

# Example!
def example():
   email = raw_input("Your Gmail address: ")
   login(email)
   mail("dbieber@princeton.edu", "Automate your life: sending emails", "Why'd the elephant sit on the marshmallow?")

example()

There's also: https://mixmax.com/blog/github-email-how-to-embed-gists-in-gmail

thanks for the code, works perfect

Thank you for the code. It works very well. Just what I was looking for.

Which ports do I have do open to send these emails? @dbieber