Chapter 4. Engaging with E-mails

E-mail is one of the most popular ways of digital communication. Python has a rich number of built-in libraries for dealing with e-mails. In this chapter, we will learn how to use Python to compose, send, and retrieve e-mails. The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • Sending e-mails with SMTP through the smtplib library
  • Securing e-mails transport with TLS
  • Retrieving e-mails by using POP3 with poplib
  • Retrieving e-mails by using IMAP with imapclient
  • Manipulating e-mails on the server with IMAP
  • Sending e-mails with the help of the logging module

E-mail terminologies

Before we start composing our first e-mail with the help of Python, let us revisit some of the elementary concepts of e-mail. Often, an end-user ...

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