Send mail using Gmail's SMTP service

smtp_send_mail.py

# src: https://stackoverflow.com/a/12424439/617185

def send_email(user, password, recipient, subject, body):
    import smtplib
    
    FROM = user
    TO = recipient if type(recipient) is list else [recipient]
    SUBJECT = subject
    TEXT = body

    # Format the email body
    message = """From: %s\nTo: %s\nSubject: %s\n\n%s
        """ % (FROM, ", ".join(TO), SUBJECT, TEXT)

    try:
        server_ssl = smtplib.SMTP_SSL("smtp.gmail.com", 465)
        server_ssl.login(FROM, password)
        server_ssl.sendmail(FROM, TO, message)
        server_ssl.close()
    except Exception as e:
        print("failed to send mail")
        print(e)
    else:
        print 'successfully sent the mail'