User’s Guide¶
Sending Messages¶
Sending Message Objects¶
To send a message, create an email.message.EmailMessage object, set
appropriate headers (“From” and one of “To”, “Cc” or “Bcc”, at minimum), then
pass it to send() with the hostname and port of an SMTP server.
For details on creating email.message.EmailMessage objects, see
the stdlib documentation examples.
Note
Confusingly, email.message.Message objects are part of the
legacy email API (prior to Python 3.3), while email.message.EmailMessage
objects support email policies other than the older email.policy.Compat32.
Use email.message.EmailMessage where possible; it makes headers easier to
work with.
import asyncio
from email.message import EmailMessage
import aiosmtplib
async def send_hello_world():
message = EmailMessage()
message["From"] = "root@localhost"
message["To"] = "somebody@example.com"
message["Subject"] = "Hello World!"
message.set_content("Sent via aiosmtplib")
await aiosmtplib.send(message, hostname="127.0.0.1", port=1025)
event_loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
event_loop.run_until_complete(send_hello_world())
Multipart Messages¶
Pass email.mime.multipart.MIMEMultipart objects to send() to
send messages with both HTML text and plain text alternatives.
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
message = MIMEMultipart("alternative")
message["From"] = "root@localhost"
message["To"] = "somebody@example.com"
message["Subject"] = "Hello World!"
plain_text_message = MIMEText("Sent via aiosmtplib", "plain", "utf-8")
html_message = MIMEText(
"<html><body><h1>Sent via aiosmtplib</h1></body></html>", "html", "utf-8"
)
message.attach(plain_text_message)
message.attach(html_message)
Sending Raw Messages¶
You can also send a str or bytes message, by providing the sender
and recipients keyword arguments.
import asyncio
import aiosmtplib
async def send_hello_world():
message = """To: somebody@example.com
From: root@localhost
Subject: Hello World!
Sent via aiosmtplib
"""
await aiosmtplib.send(
message,
sender="root@localhost",
recipients=["somebody@example.com"],
hostname="127.0.0.1",
port=1025
)
event_loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
event_loop.run_until_complete(send_hello_world())
Authentication¶
To authenticate, pass the username and password keyword arguments to
send().
await send(
message,
hostname="127.0.0.1",
port=1025,
username="test",
password="test"
)
Connection Options¶
Connecting Over TLS/SSL¶
If an SMTP server supports direct connection via TLS/SSL, pass
use_tls=True.
await send(message, hostname="smtp.gmail.com", port=465, use_tls=True)
STARTTLS connections¶
Many SMTP servers support the STARTTLS extension over port 587. When using
STARTTLS, the initial connection is made over plaintext, and after connecting
a STARTTLS command is sent, which initiates the upgrade to a secure connection.
To connect to a server that uses STARTTLS, set start_tls to True.
await send(message, hostname="smtp.gmail.com", port=587, start_tls=True)