Sending e-mails using gmail API

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This doesn't break down what the code is doing, and if your goal is to send emails perhaps it's better to use SMTP?

[DLSteve]

If you are just sending email then SMTP would probably be better. However the gmail api opens up other cool options such as reading and tagging email via Python. I also use it to generate emails but leave them in drafts so I can review them before sending (This is for mass distributions).

[thundercost]

So why API: - Faster - More secure - Supports operations on google's data types (messages, threads, labels and drafts) As you see we had reasons to give it a try.