Python email sending example

email-test.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import email.mime.text
import email.header
import smtplib

email.Charset.add_charset('utf-8', email.Charset.QP, email.Charset.QP, 'utf-8')

me = u'Foo Bar <test@example.com>'
you = me

msg = email.mime.text.MIMEText(u'<strong>test\u2192</strong>', 'html', 'UTF-8')
msg['Subject'] = email.header.Header(u'python mail test \u2192', 'UTF-8')
msg['From'] = email.header.Header(me, 'UTF-8')
msg['To'] = email.header.Header(you, 'UTF-8')

s = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.example.com')
s.sendmail(me, [you], msg.as_string())
s.quit()