Sending an email with an attachment via Gmail SMTP server

You would like to send an email message from your Google email account to another account. You also need to attach a file with this message.

Getting ready

To run this recipe, you should have an email account with Google or any other service provider.

How to do it...

We can create an email message and attach Python's python-logo.gif file with the email message. Then, this message is sent from a Google account to a different account.

Listing 4.6 shows us how to send an email from your Google account:

#!/usr/bin/env python 
# Python Network Programming Cookbook, Second Edition -- Chapter - 5 
# This program is optimized for Python 2.7.12 and Python 3.5.2. 
# It may run on any other version with/without modifications. 
 
import argparse 
import os 
import getpass 
import re 
import sys 
import smtplib 
  
from email.mime.image import MIMEImage 
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart 
from email.mime.text import MIMEText 
  
SMTP_SERVER...