Sending Emails With Python

Joe Tatusko 8 Lessons 35m
intermediate web-dev

In this course, you’ll learn how to send emails using Python. Find out how to send plain-text and HTML messages, add files as attachments, and send personalized emails to multiple people. Later on you’ll build a CSV-powered email sending script from scratch.

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Sending Emails With Python

8 Lessons 35m

1. Sending Emails: Intro and Account Configuration 01:58

2. Connecting to the Mail Server With smtplib 04:21

3. Opportunistic Encryption With starttls() 03:41

4. Sending Plaintext Emails With Python 05:01

5. Sending HTML Emails With Python 05:56

6. Adding Email Attachments With smtplib 04:26

7. Sending Multiple Emails From a CSV File 05:34

8. Sending Emails With Yagmail 04:58

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About Joe Tatusko

Joe is a manufacturing engineer turned Pythonista with interests in data wrangling and visualization.

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Participant Comments

mikesult on Feb. 26, 2020

Great tutorial Joe. I learned some really useful techniques regarding email. Thanks!

charliem22 on May 28, 2019

Excellent tutorial! Very clearly presented and logically structured! This is a model of how on-line education can work. Thanks for taking the time to make this!! charlie

sion on April 25, 2019

Very helpful, very interesting and well presented. Thank you

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