ihfazhillah / email_smtp_gmail

Send Email Using Gmail from Python

Installation

pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

python email_sender.py --help

Usage: email_sender.py [OPTIONS] SENDER PASSWORD DISPLAY_NAME REPLY_TO TO
                       SUBJECT BODY

Options:
  --cc TEXT
  --bcc TEXT
  -a, --attachment FILENAME
  --help                     Show this message and exit.

Note:

• sender was an email that used for SMTP authentication
• see this link for password https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7126229?visit_id=638095331531397460-2850466871&p=BadCredentials&rd=2#cantsignin&zippy=%2Ci-cant-sign-in-to-my-email-client
• all arguments are strings.
• the script will print:
  • 0, => if no error occurred
  • 1, A message => if an error occurred
• options cc, bcc, attachment can be used multiple times. That means, you can have multiple cc, bcc and also the attachment.
• make sure to add a full path into attachment.

Here is the example how to invoke the script

 python email_sender.py [e-mail] "your password" "Your display" [e-mail] [e-mail] "my subject" "this is a hello world string, hello hello hello. hello" -a "/home/home/g1051.png" -a "/home/homefolder/notify-con.png" --attachment "/home/homefolder/2023-01-01_13-38-13.mp4" --cc [e-mail] --cc [e-mail]