#!/usr/bin/env python """ Send Gmail from Python """ import smtplib #for sending e-mail from email.mime.text import MIMEText #for creating e-mail GMAIL_USER = 'my_awesome_name@gmail.com' GMAIL_PASS = 'my_super-secure_password' message = MIMEText('really important stuff here') message['subject'] = "Python can send Gmail!" message['from'] = GMAIL_USER gmail = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587) gmail.ehlo() gmail.starttls() gmail.ehlo() gmail.login(GMAIL_USER, GMAIL_PASS) gmail.sendmail(GMAIL_USER, 'recipient@example.com', message.as_string())