Mailshot is a wrapper around smtplib's SMTP connection and simplifying sending of email using python.
from mailshot import Mailshot
mailshot = Mailshot()
mailshot.compose("to@example.com", subject="Example")
mailshot.send()Run the following command
pip install mailshotUsage of application specific passowrd is recommended. Store it in the environment variable. Use EMAIL for storing the Gmail address and PASSWORD for storing application-specific passwords (recommended).
If you want to store the password in the script, you can do it as follows.
from mailshot import Mailshot
mailshot = Mailshot("u@example.com", "password")The best way to can take the password as an input.
from mailshot import Mailshot
password = input("Password : ")
mailshot = Mailshot("u@example.com", password)If you don’t want your password to show on your screen when you type it, you can import the getpass module and use .getpass() instead for blind input of your password.
compose() method takes following arguments
- to (required) : A string or list of strings of recipients.
- cc (optional) : A string or list of strings of recipients of the carbon copy.
- bcc (optional) : A string or list of strings of recipients of the blind carbon copy.
- subject (optional) : A subject string.
- text (optional) : A text string.
- html (optional) : A html string to render.
- files (optional) : A file or list of files.
from mailshot import Mailshot
mailshot = Mailshot()
mailshot.compose("to@example.com", cc=["one@example.com", "two@example.com"], subject="Test Mail", text="Test Mail", files=["test.pdf", "test.png"])Mailshot allows you to
- Send mail to bulk of recipients.
- Send text and HTML body.
- Send bulk of files.
- Send the personalised email.
Mailshot is developed by Rohan Pednekar.
Mailshot is licensed under the MIT License.
Source code is available on GitHub at: rohan-pednekar/mailshot.
To file issue reports and feature requests use the project's issue tracker on GitHub.