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How to Send an Email With Yagmail

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Author
Yevhenii Odyntsov
Word Count
1,071
Company Posts That Month
14
Language
English
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Summary

Yagmail is a Python library that simplifies sending email through Gmail’s SMTP service, allowing developers to send messages with only a few lines of code after installation and Gmail authentication. The tutorial demonstrates creating an SMTP connection, sending a basic message with recipient, subject, and contents fields, and handling failures with a try-except block, while noting that OAuth2 credentials are safer than passwords or less-secure-app settings. It also shows how to attach one or multiple files, deliver messages to multiple recipients, use CC and BCC fields, and format message content with HTML. Because Yagmail is limited to Gmail accounts, the material also presents Mailtrap Email API as an alternative for application-wide email delivery, offering API and SMTP integration, domain verification, delivery monitoring, logs, and performance reports.

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