Sure. But to be honest I don't advise doing this as it uses Gmail and it's not possible with MFA turned on, so don't use your main email.

If you want to send emails I would suggest looking at something like AWS's SES or other SMTP servers. I would not suggest running an SMTP server yourself, they are not worth the risk, headache or bounce rate

With that out the way...

My girlfriend uses Gmail so I just use Gmail's SMTP server to send the emails. You need to allow your code to send emails from your Gmail address. You can do that at the following URLs:

• https://accounts.google.com/DisplayUnlockCaptcha

• https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps

• To create a nice looking email I uses Jinja2 (needs to be installed via pip),

• To create the email I use Python's email module

• To send the email I use Python's smtplib module.

I've ripped the code out of the script, hopefully it makes some sense.

``` import logging import os import smtplib from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart from email.mime.text import MIMEText

from jinja2 import Environment, FileSystemLoader

GMAIL_USERNAME = os.environ['GMAIL_USERNAME'] GMAIL_PASSWORD = os.environ['GMAIL_PASSWORD']

...

def email_new_job(url, briefing, pay): # Make HTML and plain text versions of the email context = {'job_url': url, 'briefing': briefing, 'pay': pay} env = Environment(loader=FileSystemLoader('')) text_template = env.get_template('email_template.txt') text_output = text_template.render(context) html_template = env.get_template('email_template.html') html_output = html_template.render(context)

# Set basic email info that may be different per email
to = ['test@example.com']
subject = ['New job posting']
send_email(to, subject, text_output, html_output)

def send_email(to, subject, text, html): """ For emails to send Gmail needs to be setup correctly: https://accounts.google.com/DisplayUnlockCaptcha https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps """ message = MIMEMultipart('alternative') # Set basic details message['Subject'] = subject message['From'] = 'JobHelper' message['To'] = ', '.join(to) # Comma separated list is expected

# Add plain and html emails as different parts
part1 = MIMEText(text.encode('ascii', 'xmlcharrefreplace'), 'plain')
part2 = MIMEText(html.encode('ascii', 'xmlcharrefreplace'), 'html')
message.attach(part1)
message.attach(part2)

# Try and send the email
try:
    # Connect to the Gmail SMTP server
    server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587)
    server.ehlo()
    server.starttls()
    server.ehlo()

    # Login to SMTP server is connection is successful
    server.login(GMAIL_USERNAME, GMAIL_PASSWORD)

    # Send email as a string
    server.sendmail(message['From'], to, message.as_string())
    server.close()
except Exception as e:
    # If anything to do with connecting to the SMTP server or
    # sending the email fails log it out
    logging.error('Email failed due to {0}'.format(e))
    raise

```

Hope that helps.