Emailer sample

Here is a sample emailer in Python using the smtplib library:

import smtplib
from email.mime.text import MIMEText

# Define the email settings
SMTP_SERVER = "smtp.gmail.com"
SMTP_PORT = 587
FROM_EMAIL = "[email protected]"
PASSWORD = "your_password"

# Define the email message
SUBJECT = "Test Email"
BODY = "This is a test email sent using Python."

# Create a text message
msg = MIMEText(BODY)
msg["Subject"] = SUBJECT
msg["From"] = FROM_EMAIL
msg["To"] = "[email protected]"

# Connect to the SMTP server
server = smtplib.SMTP(SMTP_SERVER, SMTP_PORT)
server.starttls()
server.login(FROM_EMAIL, PASSWORD)

# Send the email
server.sendmail(FROM_EMAIL, "[email protected]", msg.as_string())

# Close the SMTP connection
server.quit()

This code sends a simple text email to a recipient using the Gmail SMTP server. You'll need to replace the placeholders ([email protected], your_password, and [email protected]) with your actual email credentials and the recipient's email address.

Here's a breakdown of the code:

  1. We import the smtplib library and the MIMEText class from the email.mime.text module.
  2. We define the email settings: the SMTP server, port, from email address, and password.
  3. We define the email message: the subject, body, and recipient email address.
  4. We create a MIMEText object and set its subject, from, and to fields.
  5. We connect to the SMTP server using the SMTP class from smtplib.
  6. We start a TLS connection using the starttls() method.
  7. We log in to the SMTP server using the login() method.
  8. We send the email using the sendmail() method.
  9. We close the SMTP connection using the quit() method.

Note that this is just a basic example, and you may want to add additional features such as error handling, attachments, and HTML formatting to your emailer.