Question

I write a form in Google App Engine using Python that user can input data to form. After input, I want this data to be send to one’s email. for example : [e-mail].

My question is : in Python, does it have simple function (and I can use this function on Google App Engine) to send email ?

Thanks 🙂

Answer 1

Python does have a mail package for transmitting emails.

Included below is an example as found in the Python docs

# Import smtplib for the actual sending function
import smtplib

# Import the email modules we'll need
from email.mime.text import MIMEText

# Open a plain text file for reading.  For this example, assume that
# the text file contains only ASCII characters.
fp = open(textfile, 'rb')
# Create a text/plain message
msg = MIMEText(fp.read())
fp.close()

# me == the sender's email address
# you == the recipient's email address
msg['Subject'] = 'The contents of %s' % textfile
msg['From'] = me
msg['To'] = you

# Send the message via our own SMTP server, but don't include the
# envelope header.
s = smtplib.SMTP('localhost')
s.sendmail(me, [you], msg.as_string())
s.quit()

In addition, the app engine has a mail API as well.

from google.appengine.api import mail

mail.send_mail(sender="Example.com Support <[e-mail]>",
              to="Albert Johnson <[e-mail]>",
              subject="Your account has been approved",
              body="""
Dear Albert:

Your example.com account has been approved.  You can now visit
http://www.example.com/ and sign in using your Google Account to
access new features.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

The example.com Team
""")