Function used to send a MIMEMultipart email object (msg) to your own email using Python's smtplib library.

notify_smtp.py

import smtplib
import socket

def send(server='smtp-mail.outlook.com', port='587', msg):
    # contain following in try-except in case of momentary network errors
    try:
        # initialise connection to email server, the default is Outlook
        smtp = smtplib.SMTP(server, port)
        # this is the 'Extended Hello' command, essentially greeting our SMTP or ESMTP server
        smtp.ehlo()
        # this is the 'Start Transport Layer Security' command, tells the server we will
        # be communicating with TLS encryption
        smtp.starttls()
        
        # read email and password from file
        with open('../data/email.txt', 'r') as fp:
            email = fp.read()
        with open('../data/password.txt', 'r') as fp:
            pwd = fp.read()
            
        # login to outlook server
        smtp.login(email, pwd)
        # send notification to self
        smtp.sendmail(email, email, msg.as_string())
        # disconnect from the server
        smtp.quit()
    except socket.gaierror:
        print("Network connection error, email not sent.")