1 #!/usr/bin/env python 2 3 import smtplib 4 5 from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart 6 from email.mime.text import MIMEText 7 8 # me == my email address 9 # you == recipient's email address 10 me = "my (at] email.com" 11 you = "your (at] email.com" 12 13 # Create message container - the correct MIME type is multipart/alternative. 14 msg = MIMEMultipart('alternative') 15 msg['Subject'] = "Link" 16 msg['From'] = me 17 msg['To'] = you 18 19 # Create the body of the message (a plain-text and an HTML version). 20 text = "Hi!\nHow are you?\nHere is the link you wanted:\nhttps://www.python.org" 21 html = """\ 22 <html> 23 <head></head> 24 <body> 25 <p>Hi!<br> 26 How are you?<br> 27 Here is the <a href="https://www.python.org">link</a> you wanted. 28 </p> 29 </body> 30 </html> 31 """ 32 33 # Record the MIME types of both parts - text/plain and text/html. 34 part1 = MIMEText(text, 'plain') 35 part2 = MIMEText(html, 'html') 36 37 # Attach parts into message container. 38 # According to RFC 2046, the last part of a multipart message, in this case 39 # the HTML message, is best and preferred. 40 msg.attach(part1) 41 msg.attach(part2) 42 43 # Send the message via local SMTP server. 44 s = smtplib.SMTP('localhost') 45 # sendmail function takes 3 arguments: sender's address, recipient's address 46 # and message to send - here it is sent as one string. 47 s.sendmail(me, you, msg.as_string()) 48 s.quit() 49