Sending Emails With smtplib In Python

Question

I am trying to send emails with Gmail through the SMTPlib, it works fine when I send them to myself, but every time I try to send an email to someone else it still sends it to my own email.

import smtplib as s

username = raw_input("Gmail Username: ")
password = raw_input("Gmail Password: ")
obj = s.SMTP("smtp.gmail.com:587")
obj.starttls()
obj.login(username, password)
v_email = raw_input("Email: ")
email_message = raw_input("Message: ")
obj.sendmail(username, v_email, email_message)

What do the email headers look like on the email that's sent? — Theron Luhn
– Theron Luhn, Commented Apr 26, 2012 at 23:44
Yeah, I don't see you adding the sender or any other headers to the e-mail. Which means the user is expected to type them as part of a message. — kindall
– kindall, Commented Apr 26, 2012 at 23:50
I am supposed to add From: and To: etc in it? Sorry I am new to this — Max00355
– Max00355, Commented Apr 27, 2012 at 0:00
yea, you have to call .mail(sender) and .rcpt(recipient) first. wikipedia has a nice example how smtp works. — mata
– mata, Commented Apr 27, 2012 at 0:09

dpp · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-27 01:00:05Z

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Look a the example http://docs.python.org/library/smtplib.html, check how 'msg' is populated before passing to smtplib.sendmail()

answered Apr 27, 2012 at 1:00

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Max00355 Over a year ago

Thanks I should have looked at it more carefully.

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