Python - Setup Guide

Important Points

The following code example is a simple demonstration of how you can send a message using the Python programming language via an AuthSMTP account.

This code should not be used in a production environment without adding error handling and input sanitisation.

You should ensure that your code is able to gracefully handle errors in not being able to transmit messages to our network. While we endeavour to provide maximum availability for our service there is always the possibility of connectivity or other technical issues beyond our (or your) control. Ideally error handling, logging, message queueing (with retry) and monitoring should all be considered.

Before copying this code to a server for testing please replace the items in step 4 with your own AuthSMTP credentials.

Code Example

# Step 1 - Import required packages
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
import smtplib
 
# Step 2 - Create message object instance
msg = MIMEMultipart()
 
# Step 3 - Create message body
message = "Test from Python via AuthSMTP"
 
# Step 4 - Declare SMTP credentials
password = "XXXXXXXXX"
username = "XXXXXXX"
smtphost = "mail.authsmtp.com:2525"

# Step 5 - Declare message elements
msg['From'] = "your.name@your-domain-name.com"
msg['To'] = "your.name@your-domain-name.com"
msg['Subject'] = "Test from Python via AuthSMTP"
 
# Step 6 - Add the message body to the object instance
msg.attach(MIMEText(message, 'plain'))
 
# Step 7 - Create the server connection
server = smtplib.SMTP(smtphost)
 
# Step 8 - Switch the connection over to TLS encryption
server.starttls()
 
# Step 9 - Authenticate with the server
server.login(username, password)
 
# Step 10 - Send the message
server.sendmail(msg['From'], msg['To'], msg.as_string())

# Step 11 - Disconnect
server.quit()
 
# Step 12 - 
print "Successfully sent email message to %s:" % (msg['To'])

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