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

You can utilize the email.message.Message class, and use it to generate mime headers, including from:, to: and subject. Send the as_string() result via SMTP.

>>> from email import message
>>> m1=message.Message()
>>> m1.add_header('from','me@no.where')
>>> m1.add_header('to','myself@some.where')
>>> m1.add_header('subject','test')
>>> m1.set_payload('test\n')
>>> m1.as_string()
'from: me@no.where\nto: myself@some.where\nsubject: test\n\ntest\n'
>>>