1 00:00:01,810 --> 00:00:09,940 In this lecture, you'll learn how to send an email from an outlook or a Hotmail address. 2 00:00:11,190 --> 00:00:16,940 For that, we're going to be using smtplib. 3 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:21,750 This is a standard Python library, meaning you don't need to install it. 4 00:00:21,780 --> 00:00:24,150 This comes shipped with Python. 5 00:00:24,930 --> 00:00:32,400 Once you import the library, then you want to prepare the email, which means you want to define 6 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:33,780 who the sender is. 7 00:00:34,140 --> 00:00:42,000 In my case, that is a Hotmail address, so you can either put a Hotmail address or an outlook address 8 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:42,240 here. 9 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:49,610 This is a throwaway account that I have created. 10 00:00:50,780 --> 00:00:52,010 It's a Hotmail address. 11 00:00:53,120 --> 00:01:01,250 And then the receiver, the receiver in my case, would be a Gmail account, but it could be any email 12 00:01:01,250 --> 00:01:01,700 address. 13 00:01:05,610 --> 00:01:08,910 And the passwords of the sender. 14 00:01:09,810 --> 00:01:13,500 So the password of your Hotmail or outlook account. 15 00:01:13,810 --> 00:01:17,010 Now you can either place the password in here. 16 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:25,680 I've created a temporary passwords for this account, so you can either place the password in here as 17 00:01:25,680 --> 00:01:29,580 a plain string or if you want to be more secure. 18 00:01:29,850 --> 00:01:31,050 So it's up to you. 19 00:01:31,060 --> 00:01:34,230 It is recommended to make it more secure. 20 00:01:34,620 --> 00:01:36,360 Like, I'll show you just now. 21 00:01:37,950 --> 00:01:38,640 But it's up to you. 22 00:01:38,670 --> 00:01:40,990 You can also leave it your passwords here. 23 00:01:41,700 --> 00:01:45,990 If that's not your main email account, for example. 24 00:01:46,320 --> 00:01:53,220 So if you want to be more secure and if you are using a Repl, then you can go to secrets. 25 00:01:53,230 --> 00:02:05,160 This icon here and then here add a key such as passwords, and the value. The value will be your actual 26 00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:05,730 passwords. 27 00:02:05,970 --> 00:02:07,080 So there. 28 00:02:08,120 --> 00:02:10,729 And Press on add new secret. 29 00:02:11,420 --> 00:02:20,630 So you have just created an environment variable in the Repl system, then you can delete that and 30 00:02:20,630 --> 00:02:28,250 use os.getenv and then place the name you gave to that environment variable. 31 00:02:28,670 --> 00:02:32,300 So passwords in capital letters, that's what I entered. 32 00:02:32,570 --> 00:02:34,850 And then import os. 33 00:02:35,030 --> 00:02:37,460 Now this is what you do in Repl. 34 00:02:38,870 --> 00:02:44,660 If you're using your local computer and you don't want to save the password as a plain python string 35 00:02:44,660 --> 00:02:44,960 here. 36 00:02:45,290 --> 00:02:47,360 Then you want to go to 37 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:48,260 pythonhow.com. 38 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:57,100 And then search for here in the box, search for passwords securely. 39 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:09,850 And this is the article you should follow how to create a password securely on Windows and also on Mac 40 00:03:09,850 --> 00:03:10,570 or Linux. 41 00:03:10,900 --> 00:03:15,220 And then once you follow those instructions, then you write this line here. 42 00:03:15,580 --> 00:03:19,150 So the password will get the value from the environment variables. 43 00:03:19,780 --> 00:03:25,150 For simplicity, though, I'm just going to write python12345678. 44 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:29,680 The plain password in here and then carry on with the message. 45 00:03:30,190 --> 00:03:36,310 So the message or the content would be a multi-line string. 46 00:03:37,090 --> 00:03:42,130 Now what we're sending this time in this video is of plain text email. 47 00:03:42,700 --> 00:03:46,590 So it's not an email that contains different fonts. 48 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:53,170 For that, you'd need an HTML email, which is what we're going to do in the next video. 49 00:03:53,620 --> 00:03:55,180 So this is just plain text. 50 00:03:55,330 --> 00:03:57,280 No fonts, no attachments. 51 00:03:58,120 --> 00:04:08,530 And the syntax for this is you need here a back slash and then you write with a capital S subject, colon, 52 00:04:08,770 --> 00:04:12,850 space and then write the subject of the email. 53 00:04:13,420 --> 00:04:14,790 For example, hello, hello. 54 00:04:15,310 --> 00:04:24,350 Then you want to make a break line and leave an empty line there and then carry on with the body of 55 00:04:24,490 --> 00:04:24,990 email. 56 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:26,620 So the content. 57 00:04:27,190 --> 00:04:28,290 This is Ardit. 58 00:04:30,700 --> 00:04:33,400 Just wanted to say hi. 59 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:35,910 So you should follow. 60 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:41,140 You must follow this syntax with triple quotes here. 61 00:04:41,140 --> 00:04:42,130 Triple quotes here. 62 00:04:42,250 --> 00:04:43,780 So it's a multiplying string. 63 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:46,090 Then you have the backslash here. 64 00:04:46,990 --> 00:04:55,360 Subjects, column, space, of the subject and then a brake line, empty line and then the content. 65 00:04:55,900 --> 00:04:57,430 The body of the email. 66 00:04:59,870 --> 00:05:04,580 So that concludes the preparation of the email content. 67 00:05:04,850 --> 00:05:15,290 Now we want to start up the server, the SMTP server and send out the email. An SMTP server is a server 68 00:05:15,290 --> 00:05:18,980 whose role is to send and receive emails. 69 00:05:19,280 --> 00:05:27,800 Now we're going to use the outlook SMTP servers, and for that, we need to the domain of that server 70 00:05:28,070 --> 00:05:30,110 and the port of the server. 71 00:05:30,770 --> 00:05:32,810 And these two are publicly known. 72 00:05:32,810 --> 00:05:38,760 So all we have to do is create a server variable and point to smtplib.SMTP. 73 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:47,690 So that is a class and it expects two arguments, the domain. 74 00:05:47,810 --> 00:06:00,830 So smtp.office365.com, that's the domain of outlook and the port is 75 00:06:01,810 --> 00:06:02,890 587. 76 00:06:03,670 --> 00:06:10,410 Once you have instantiated the server, you want to say server.starttls. 77 00:06:11,380 --> 00:06:17,350 So you are starting the tls protocol, which is a protocol to send emails in an encrypted form. 78 00:06:18,310 --> 00:06:22,300 And then you want to say server, so you always point to the server now. 79 00:06:22,310 --> 00:06:26,260 dott login, with the log in method 80 00:06:26,260 --> 00:06:30,760 you are logging into your email accounts, outlook or Hotmail. 81 00:06:31,030 --> 00:06:40,930 So I'm logging into this email account now using the sender variable so that email address and the password 82 00:06:40,930 --> 00:06:43,480 variable, that password there. 83 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:53,980 Once you log in, we are ready to use the send mail method, which expects again the sender. 84 00:06:55,230 --> 00:06:56,610 And the receiver. 85 00:06:59,100 --> 00:07:01,140 And the message. 86 00:07:03,180 --> 00:07:12,000 So that message that string, and then finally, we can say server.quit to quit the server. 87 00:07:12,450 --> 00:07:15,510 And yeah, you are ready to run the code. 88 00:07:16,710 --> 00:07:25,140 If there are no errors, then you probably already received the email, so go and check if you got an 89 00:07:25,140 --> 00:07:27,840 email in your receiver account 90 00:07:29,210 --> 00:07:30,170 which is this one here. 91 00:07:30,290 --> 00:07:39,530 Now, be careful if you're using a new outlook or Hotmail account, then it's probable that the email 92 00:07:39,530 --> 00:07:45,410 might be ending up in your spam folder or junk folder. 93 00:07:45,830 --> 00:07:50,450 So that is the case for me, and that's the email. 94 00:07:50,750 --> 00:07:56,660 So you see, the subject is Hello, hello, this is the body of the email I can report. 95 00:07:56,660 --> 00:08:02,900 This is not spam so that next time I'll probably get this email in my inbox. 96 00:08:04,450 --> 00:08:11,230 So this is a Gmail account that's I entered here in the receiver and that's the complete code. 97 00:08:12,490 --> 00:08:20,200 In the next video, I'll show you how to send an e-mail that has HTML instead of plain text. 98 00:08:20,770 --> 00:08:28,020 So basically, you can enter rich elements. You can enter fonts and other elements using HTML. 99 00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:29,970 So let me show you that's in the next video. 100 00:08:30,010 --> 00:08:30,310 See you.