add sender's name in the from field of the email in python

Question

I am trying to send email with below code.

import smtplib
from email.mime.text import MIMEText

sender = \'sender@sender.com\'

def mail_me(cont, receiver):
         


        

Answer 1

Just tested the following code with gmx.com and it works fine. Although, whether you get the same mileage is a moot point.
I have replaced all references to my email service with gmail

#!/usr/bin/python

#from smtplib import SMTP # Standard connection
from smtplib import SMTP_SSL as SMTP #SSL connection
from email.MIMEMultipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.MIMEText import MIMEText

sender = 'example@gmail.com'
receivers = ['example@gmail.com']


msg = MIMEMultipart()
msg['From'] = 'example@gmail.com'
msg['To'] = 'example@gmail.com'
msg['Subject'] = 'simple email via python test 1'
message = 'This is the body of the email line 1\nLine 2\nEnd'
msg.attach(MIMEText(message))

ServerConnect = False
try:
    smtp_server = SMTP('smtp.gmail.com','465')
    smtp_server.login('#name#@gmail.com', '#password#')
    ServerConnect = True
except SMTPHeloError as e:
    print "Server did not reply"
except SMTPAuthenticationError as e:
    print "Incorrect username/password combination"
except SMTPException as e:
    print "Authentication failed"

if ServerConnect == True:
    try:
        smtp_server.sendmail(sender, receivers, msg.as_string())
        print "Successfully sent email"
    except SMTPException as e:
        print "Error: unable to send email", e
    finally:
        smtp_server.close()