Sending mail to local user

local_email.py

"""
    Sending local email
        
    Created on 2010-09-15
    @author: jldupont
"""
import smtplib
import getpass

SERVER = "localhost"

FROM = "somesender@localhost"
TO = ["%s@localhost" % getpass.getuser()]

SUBJECT = "Hello!"

TEXT = "This message was sent with Python's smtplib."

# Prepare actual message

message = """\
From: %s
To: %s
Subject: %s

%s
""" % (FROM, ", ".join(TO), SUBJECT, TEXT)

# Send the mail

server = smtplib.SMTP(SERVER)
server.sendmail(FROM, TO, message)
server.quit()