Sending mail via sendmail from python

Question

If I want to send mail not via SMTP, but rather via sendmail, is there a library for python that encapsulates this process?

Better yet, is there a good library that

Answer 1

It's quite common to just use the sendmail command from Python using os.popen

Personally, for scripts i didn't write myself, I think just using the SMTP-protocol is better, since it wouldn't require installing say an sendmail clone to run on windows.

https://docs.python.org/library/smtplib.html

Answer 2

This is a simple python function that uses the unix sendmail to deliver a mail.

def sendMail():
    sendmail_location = "/usr/sbin/sendmail" # sendmail location
    p = os.popen("%s -t" % sendmail_location, "w")
    p.write("From: %s\n" % "from@somewhere.com")
    p.write("To: %s\n" % "to@somewhereelse.com")
    p.write("Subject: thesubject\n")
    p.write("\n") # blank line separating headers from body
    p.write("body of the mail")
    status = p.close()
    if status != 0:
           print "Sendmail exit status", status