Sometimes you'd like a server to notify you when its done with a job, with a
minimal amount of configuration. Fortunately, Python's smtplib facilitates
this.
The function below sends an email to from your Gmail account (as specified by
user and pwd) to a recipient with an associated subject and body.
def send_email(user, pwd, recipient, subject, body):
import smtplib
gmail_user = user
gmail_pwd = pwd
FROM = user
TO = recipient if type(recipient) is list else [recipient]
SUBJECT = subject
TEXT = body
# Prepare actual message
message = """\From: %s\nTo: %s\nSubject: %s\n\n%s
""" % (FROM, ", ".join(TO), SUBJECT, TEXT)
try:
server = smtplib.SMTP("smtp.gmail.com", 587)
server.ehlo()
server.starttls()
server.login(gmail_user, gmail_pwd)
server.sendmail(FROM, TO, message)
server.close()
print 'successfully sent the mail'
except:
print "failed to send mail"
You can put this in a script and have it trigger like so:
send_email("me@gmail.com","mypassword","me@gmail.com","Job XXXX is done","Done.")
You can also use it to send SMS messages to yourself, if you know your provider's SMS gateway. For instance, I use Ting for my cell service, so I can send myself SMS messages with:
send_email("me@gmail.com","mypassword","MY_NUMBER@message.ting.com","","Job XXXX is done.")
Credit: We have David Okwii's SO answer to thank for this.