1# Import smtplib for the actual sending function 2import smtplib 3 4# Import the email modules we'll need 5from email.mime.text import MIMEText 6 7# Open a plain text file for reading. For this example, assume that 8# the text file contains only ASCII characters. 9fp = open(textfile, 'rb') 10# Create a text/plain message 11msg = MIMEText(fp.read()) 12fp.close() 13 14# me == the sender's email address 15# you == the recipient's email address 16msg['Subject'] = 'The contents of %s' % textfile 17msg['From'] = me 18msg['To'] = you 19 20# Send the message via our own SMTP server, but don't include the 21# envelope header. 22s = smtplib.SMTP('localhost') 23s.sendmail(me, [you], msg.as_string()) 24s.quit() 25