Python Can't Send Emails to Gmail

I have a python script to send emails. I utilize this to send alerts to my email and phone. But for some reason the emails are not received when sending to a gmail account. The big difference that I see between my code and other examples is I cannot use the smtp.gmail.com. Here's my email/text function:

import smtplib

sender = 'xxxx@company.com'
smtpObj = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.company.com')

def text_func ( subject,text_message ):
    text_receivers = ['##########@vtext.com',
        'xxxxxxxx@company.com',
        'xxxxxxxx@gmail.com'
    ]
    text_message = """Subject: %s

    %s
    """ % (subject, text_message)

    smtpObj.sendmail(sender, text_receivers, text_message)

The above code works for sending an sms to my phone and my work email but not to gmail. I checked and made sure the email doesn't show up in a spam folder. Google seems to be blocking it completely. Any ideas?

Solution

Found the solution.

import smtplib
from email.mime.text import MIMEText

sender = 'xxxx@company.com'
smtpObj = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.company.com')

def text_func ( subject,text_message ):
    text_receivers = ['##########@vtext.com',
        'xxxxxxxx@company.com',
        'xxxxxxxx@gmail.com'
    ]

    cont = '''\
       <html>
         <head></head>
         <body>
           <p>{0}</p>
         </body>
       </html>
       '''.format(text_message)

    msgTo = ""
    for person in text_receivers:
        msgTo += "{0} ".format(person)

    msg = MIMEText(cont, 'html')

    msg['Subject'] = subject
    msg['From'] = sender
    msg['To'] = msgTo

    smtpObj.sendmail(sender, text_receivers, msg.as_string())