I would like to send email at given time preferably using gmail. The rationale behind this is that the school I am applying is ordering candidates based on when they receive the participation email after given time.
I could use gmail schedule send feature but there is X delay between sending email from gmail server to school email and it potentially should be achieveable to cut it down slightly so I thought about python script to do it. I think I can get around sending it at a given time but struggle to actually send the message.
There are threads in stackoverflow suggesting python solution e.g.: How do I schedule an email to send at a certain time using cron and smtp, in python? but unfortunately it looks like gmail disabled the option to send mails from non-authorized apps. Other threads suggest that enabling less secure apps is needed. Unfortunately, this setting has been closed by Google. What could be the way around it?
My sample code:
`
def send_mail():
try:
server_ssl = smtplib.SMTP_SSL('smtp.gmail.com', 465)
server_ssl.ehlo() # optional
print('Server initialized')
sent_from = gmail_user
to = ['xxxxxxxx@gmail.com']
subject = 'my subject'
body = 'my body'
email_text = """\
From: %s
To: %s
Subject: %s
%s
""" % (sent_from, ", ".join(to), subject, body)
server_ssl.sendmail(sent_from, to, email_text)
server_ssl.close()
except Exception as inst:
print('Something went wrong')
print(type(inst)) # the exception instance
print(inst.args) # arguments stored in .args
print(inst)
`
is returning an error:
<class 'smtplib.SMTPSenderRefused'> (530, b'5.7.0 Authentication Required. Learn more at\n5.7.0 https://support.google.com/mail/?p=WantAuthError
You need to supply the login to the account, as well as an apps password. You cant just send an email without being authenticated to the mail server.
with smtplib.SMTP_SSL('smtp.gmail.com', 465, context=context) as server:
print( 'waiting to login...')
server.login(sender_email, password)
print( 'waiting to send...')
server.sendmail(sender_email, receiver_email, text)