Automating Emails and Reports

Sending automated emails and generating reports are common tasks in many projects. Python provides libraries like smtplib, email, and reportlab for these purposes.

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to send automated emails and generate basic reports.

Sending Emails with smtplib

The smtplib library allows you to send emails using SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol). Let’s start by sending a basic email.

# Sending a basic email
import smtplib

server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587)
server.starttls()
server.login('your_email@gmail.com', 'your_password')
server.sendmail('from_email@gmail.com', 'to_email@gmail.com', 'Subject: Test Email\n\nHello, this is a test email!')
server.quit()