import smtplib # testing: # start dummy web server for dev with root: python3 -m smtpd -c DebuggingServer -n localhost:25 port = 25 server=smtplib.SMTP("localhost", port) sender_email = "deadswitch@kawomi.com" receiver_email = "joerg.tretter@gmail.com" message = """\ Subject: Hi there This message is sent from Python.""" server.sendmail(sender_email, receiver_email, message)