Sending rich HTML emails with Python

[Goldy]

Whats the best way of sending HTML emails from Python 2.7? I have a script that uses smptlib library to send plain text emails from a gmail account. But I want to send the content as HTML with images.

Is there a third party API service or another Python library anyone can recommend?

 

[AHarvey]

https://docs.python.org/2/library/email-examples.html

the documentation covers using SMPTLIB for html, not tried it myself though.

 

[iKettles]

I wouldn't bother yourself with the pain of setting up SMTP yourself, there's lots of things you'll miss which managed email services handle for you. Check out https://sendgrid.com/, they have a pretty generous free package and a nice python client library: https://github.com/sendgrid/sendgrid-python. They also have their own templating system if you don't want to deal with that on the python side.