Question

How can I receive and send email in python? A ‘mail server’ of sorts.

I am looking into making an app that listens to see if it receives an email addressed to [e-mail], and sends an email to the sender.

Now, am I able to do this all in python, would it be best to use 3rd party libraries?

Answer 1

Here is a very simple example:

import smtplib  server = 'mail.server.com' user = '' password = ''  recipients = ['[e-mail]', '[e-mail]'] sender = '[e-mail]' message = 'Hello World'  session = smtplib.SMTP(server) # if your SMTP server doesn't need authentications, # you don't need the following line: session.login(user, password) session.sendmail(sender, recipients, message) 

For more options, error handling, etc, look at the smtplib module documentation.