sending_gmail is a simple way for sending text e-mails through Gmail API from your python script. Simply import send_gmail function, and use it to send emails on behave of your gmail account.

First register your app via Google API console. You can follow these instructions: https://www.epilis.gr/en/blog/2016/07/18/sending-e-mails-using-gmail-api/

send_gmail uses the scope : 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.send' , it means you will be asked to authorize your app, for sending messages only.

Make .client_secret directory in ~ ($HOME) and place there client_secret.json from google api console.

PLEASE NOTE!!: it is important to name json file exactly: client_secret.json

Install sending_gmail package via pip:

pip install sending_gmail

( Please check echo $PYTHONPATH, if it is not setup correctly, especially with Anaconda, python will not find the package. You can simply add: For example:

export PYTHONPATH=/Users/username/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages:$PYTHONPATH

or wherever you site-packages are.

in your ~/.bashrc file

You import this send_gmail function in your script:

from sending_gmail.send_gmail import send_gmail

After that you can use your function as:

send_gmail('[email protected]','receipt@some_domain','subject_any_text','message text')

for sender you need to use gmail registered in Google API Console.