Sending emails using python

The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is an internet standard communication protocol for sending emails.

Here is a script to send emails using Outlook’s SMTP and python’s smtplib library.

from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
from email.mime.base import MIMEBase
from email import encoders
import smtplib
import os

SENDER = 'from@outlook.com'
PASSWORD = 'XXXXXXXX'
RECEIVER = 'to@example.com'

msg = MIMEMultipart('Test message')
msg['Subject'] = 'Test subject'
msg['From'] = SENDER
msg['To'] = RECEIVER

attachments = ['file1.txt', 'file2.txt']
if len(attachments) > 0: 
    for f in attachments:
        part = MIMEBase('application', 'octet-stream')
        part.set_payload( open(f,'rb').read() )
        encoders.encode_base64(part)
        part.add_header('Content-Disposition', 'attachment; filename="%s"' % os.path.basename(f))
        msg.attach(part)

server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp-mail.outlook.com', 587)
server.ehlo()
server.starttls()
server.login(SENDER, PASSWORD) 
server.sendmail(SENDER, RECEIVER, msg.as_string())