GNU/Linux Python3 Mail Probe
A small script I used to quickly send a mail messages (probe).
#!/usr/bin/env python3
# Small mail probe...
from datetime import datetime
import smtplib
from email.message import EmailMessage
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
# Configured values...
senderid = "my-name"
subject = "MailProbe from " + senderid
body = "*** This is a mail probe message to verify the connection ***"
sender = "sender@example.com"
recipients = ["receiver@example.com"]
password = "store-password-somewhere-else"
# Mail sender function...
def send_email(subject, body, sender, recipients, password):
now = datetime.now()
msg = MIMEText(body)
msg['X-Ne7-Probe-Firetime'] = now.strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S")
msg['Subject'] = subject
msg['From'] = sender
msg['To'] = ', '.join(recipients)
smtp_server = smtplib.SMTP_SSL('smtp.example.com', 465)
smtp_server.login(sender, password)
smtp_server.sendmail(sender, recipients, msg.as_string())
smtp_server.quit()
send_email(subject, body, sender, recipients, password)