[TriEmbed] Raspberry Pi and eMail

[Pete Soper]

Thanks for all the info, guys!

TL;TD; I can send mail via my personal domain server and with a little 
extra code I can avoid any worries about security (and I'm behind a 
firewall anyway). So I'm covered and the rest of this is just for the 
sake of helping others interested in using Gmail.

Gmail simply doesn't work for me. Since Adam and Brian have no trouble, 
I have to assume it's something peculiar to my environment (AT&T DSL 
with their approved Pace modem/router).

I tried Adam's code a second time and got an immediate "id/password 
rejected" message. Then I created a virgin Gmail account and got this 
very strange message with Adam's code:

psoper at len:~/p$ ./foo.py
To: fredfarkel at bitser.net
Subject: FYI
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "./foo.py", line 29, in <module>
     send_msg('fredfarkel at bitser.net', 'FYI', 'Here is a message')
   File "./foo.py", line 24, in send_msg
     msg['From'] = email.utils.formataddr((_fromname, _username))
NameError: global name 'email' is not defined

I didn't realize it's possible to do an "un-import" in Python. In fact, 
not being able to find 'email' in Adam's code is pretty disturbing, as 
if the Python runtime has barfed on its shoes. The exact code I tried 
with a few string characters mutated is at the end of this message in 
case any Python wizards can spot something that would explain this (IMO 
terrible) misbehavior.

The Nuts and Volts code works perfectly with my domain server account 
(the mail supporting my usual address) and fails with a vanilla error 
with both Gmail accounts. I feel it would be a silly waste of time to do 
the package installs and configuration to try that other code Brian 
pointed to. That approach is very interesting and I want to try it some 
day, but I need to pop my stack now and move on.

-Pete

#!/usr/bin/python

import getpass, smtplib
from email.MIMEMultipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.MIMEBase import MIMEBase
from email.MIMEText import MIMEText
from email import Encoders
import os

_username = "aaabaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaq"
_password = "raaaaaaaaafaaaaaaaaaaaaaa$"
_fromname = "Neco Cat"

def send_msg(_to_addr, _subject, _body):
     server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com:587')
     server.starttls()
     server.login(_username, _password)

     print "To: %s" % _to_addr
     print "Subject: %s" %_subject

     msg = MIMEText(_body)
     msg['Subject'] = _subject
     msg['From'] = email.utils.formataddr((_fromname, _username))
     msg['To'] = _to_addr

     server.sendmail(_username, [_to_addr], msg.as_string())

send_msg('fredfarkel at bitser.net', 'FYI', 'Here is a message')