Specify a sender when sending mail with Python (smtplib)

Question

I have a very simple piece of code (just for testing):

import smtplib
import time

server = \'smtp.myprovider.com\'
recipients = [\'johndoe@somedomain.com\']         


        

Answer 1

See this answer, it's working for me.

example code:

#send html email
import smtplib
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
from email.header import Header
from email.utils import formataddr

msg = MIMEMultipart('alternative')
msg['From'] = formataddr((str(Header('MyWebsite', 'utf-8')), 'from@mywebsite.com'))
msg['To'] = 'to@email.com'

html = "email contents"

# Record the MIME types of text/html.
msg.attach(MIMEText(html, 'html'))

# Send the message via local SMTP server.
s = smtplib.SMTP('localhost')

# sendmail function takes 3 arguments: sender's address, recipient's address
# and message to send - here it is sent as one string.
s.sendmail('from@mywebsite.com', 'to@email.com', msg.as_string())
s.quit()