How do I format an email using smtplib in Python?

How do I format an email using smtplib in Python?

To format an email using smtplib, you need to create a MIMEText object for the email body and set the headers.

Can you show me a code example?

Sure! Here's a simple example:

import smtplib
from email.mime.text import MIMEText

# Create the email content
subject = 'Hello'
body = 'This is a test email.'
msg = MIMEText(body)
msg['Subject'] = subject
msg['From'] = '[email protected]'
msg['To'] = '[email protected]'

# Send the email
with smtplib.SMTP('smtp.example.com', 587) as server:
    server.starttls()
    server.login('[email protected]', 'your_password')
    server.send_message(msg)

What if I want to add attachments?

You can use the MIMEMultipart class to add attachments. Here's how:

from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.mime.base import MIMEBase
from email import encoders

msg = MIMEMultipart()
msg['From'] = '[email protected]'
msg['To'] = '[email protected]'
msg['Subject'] = subject

# Attach the body
msg.attach(MIMEText(body, 'plain'))

# Attach a file
filename = 'file.txt'
attachment = open(filename, 'rb')
part = MIMEBase('application', 'octet-stream')
part.set_payload(attachment.read())
encoders.encode_base64(part)
part.add_header('Content-Disposition', f'attachment; filename={filename}')
msg.attach(part)

# Send the email as before