Mailer - Simple Python wrapper to send email via SMTP

mailer.py

from smtplib import SMTP		# Use this for standard SMTP protocol   (port 25, no encryption)
# from smtplib import SMTP_SSL as SMTP 	# This invokes the secure SMTP protocol (port 465, uses SSL)
from email.mime.text import MIMEText


class Email(object):
	SMTP_CONFIG = dict(
		server="your_smtp_server_hostname",
		username="your_smtp_server_username",
		password="your_smtp_server_password"
	)

	# typical values for text_subtype are plain, html, xml
	DEFAULT_CONTENT_TYPE = "plain"
	DEFAULT_SENDER = "john.doe@example.com"

	def __init__(self, SMTP_CONFIG=None, debug=False):
		if not SMTP_CONFIG:
			SMTP_CONFIG = self.SMTP_CONFIG

		self.connection = SMTP(SMTP_CONFIG["server"])
		self.connection.set_debuglevel(debug)
		self.connection.login(SMTP_CONFIG["username"], SMTP_CONFIG["password"])

	def send(self, subject, message, receivers, sender=None, content_type=None):
		if not content_type:
			content_type = self.DEFAULT_CONTENT_TYPE

		if not sender:
			sender = self.DEFAULT_SENDER

		msg = MIMEText(message, content_type)
		msg["Subject"] = subject
		msg["From"] = sender
		self.connection.sendmail(sender, receivers, msg.as_string())


if __name__ == '__main__':
	email = Email()
	email.send("Test", "Test email", ["someone.i.know@gmail.com"])