Sent Email Using Python with Gmail

For our personal benefit it is better to use a new gmail account. Because if we use our own e-mail address we might face some security issures.

create an gmail account and changing some settings

After creating a gmail account we have change some setting.

• Lesssecureapp: To access our mail we need to change the setting of lesssecureapps. First login to your account. then visit following link. lesssecureapps Now turn on the option.

• Give access to IMAP:

Step 1: Check that IMAP is turned on

1. On your computer, open Gmail.
2. In the top right, click Settings .
3. Click Settings.
4. Click the Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab.
5. In the "IMAP access" section, select Enable IMAP.
6. Click Save Changes.

Using smtplib module

It is a builtin module in python.The following code is simple mail system. It only sent simple text.

Using yagmail module

This module is so simple and also can sent attachment files. This module is robost.

TO download the module :

pip install yagmail

For more info : yagmail