`smtplib`¶

SMTP/ESMTP client class.

This should follow RFC 821 (SMTP), RFC 1869 (ESMTP), RFC 2554 (SMTP Authentication) and RFC 2487 (Secure SMTP over TLS).

Notes:

Please remember, when doing ESMTP, that the names of the SMTP service extensions are NOT the same thing as the option keywords for the RCPT and MAIL commands!

Example:

>>> import smtplib
>>> s=smtplib.SMTP("localhost")
>>> print s.help()
This is Sendmail version 8.8.4
Topics:
    HELO    EHLO    MAIL    RCPT    DATA
    RSET    NOOP    QUIT    HELP    VRFY
    EXPN    VERB    ETRN    DSN
For more info use "HELP <topic>".
To report bugs in the implementation send email to
    sendmail-bugs@sendmail.org.
For local information send email to Postmaster at your site.
End of HELP info
>>> s.putcmd("vrfy","someone@here")
>>> s.getreply()
(250, "Somebody OverHere <somebody@here.my.org>")
>>> s.quit()

Functions¶

`encode_base64`(s[, binary, maxlinelen, eol])	Encode a string with base64.
`quoteaddr`(addr)	Quote a subset of the email addresses defined by RFC 821.
`quotedata`(data)	Quote data for email.

Classes¶

`LMTP`([host, port, local_hostname])	LMTP - Local Mail Transfer Protocol
`SMTP`([host, port, local_hostname, timeout])	This class manages a connection to an SMTP or ESMTP server.
`SMTP_SSL`([host, port, local_hostname, ...])	This is a subclass derived from SMTP that connects over an SSL encrypted socket (to use this class you need a socket module that was compiled with SSL support).
`SSLFakeFile`(sslobj)	A fake file like object that really wraps a SSLObject.

Exceptions¶

`SMTPAuthenticationError`(code, msg)	Authentication error.
`SMTPConnectError`(code, msg)	Error during connection establishment.
`SMTPDataError`(code, msg)	The SMTP server didn’t accept the data.
`SMTPException`	Base class for all exceptions raised by this module.
`SMTPHeloError`(code, msg)	The server refused our HELO reply.
`SMTPRecipientsRefused`(recipients)	All recipient addresses refused.
`SMTPResponseException`(code, msg)	Base class for all exceptions that include an SMTP error code.
`SMTPSenderRefused`(code, msg, sender)	Sender address refused.
`SMTPServerDisconnected`	Not connected to any SMTP server.