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The 'gmail' module provides a simple wrapper around the smtplib/email
modules to provide an easy programmatic interface for sending email using
the GMail SMTP service.

The module provides the following classes:

GMail - Basic interface to GMail SMTP service
GMailWorker - Background worker to send messages asynchronously
(uses multiprocessing module)
GMailHandler - GMail handler for logging framework
Message - Wrapper around email.Message class simplifying
creation of email message objects

The module also provides a cli interface to send email if run directly
(python -mgmail.cli)

Basic usage:

>>> gmail = GMail('A.User <user@gmail.com>','password')
>>> msg = Message('Test Message',to='xyz <xyz@xyz.com>',text='Hello')
>>> gmail.send(msg)

Note: You will need to setup an application-specific password rather
than using your account-password - see:

https://support.google.com/mail/?p=InvalidSecondFactor
https://security.google.com/settings/security/apppasswords

The Message class also provides support to simply generate html email and
add attachments.

>>> msg = Message('Test Message',to='xyz@xyz.com',text="Hello",html="<b>Hello</b>",attachments=['img.jpg'])

In Python3 messages will be unicode (utf8) encoded by default unless the
text is passed a a bytes object (the inverse is true in Python 2)

For examples of use see cli.py and test_gmail.py/test_message.py

Changelog:

* 0.1 2012-10-17 Initial Release
* 0.2 2012-10-18 Restructure module
* 0.3 2012-12-28 Fix logging/worker
* 0.3.1 2012-12-28 CLI attachment mime-type fix
* 0.4 2013-08-24 Allow user to specify 'From' and 'Reply-To' header by passing 'sender'
(Pull from from https://github.com/Kami - thanks)
* 0.5 2014-02-12 Move _gmail_worker to module function to fix
multiprocessor problem on win32
(Fix from gabriel.nevarez@gmail.com - thanks)
* 0.6.1 2016-09-25 Python 3 support
* 0.6.2 2016-12-12 Fix to Python 3 exception handling
* 0.6.3 2017-08-07 Try to handle non-ascii filenames
Fix for exception on `__del__` Method Invocation
(thanks to https://github.com/theonewolf for fix/pull request)

License:

* BSD

Author:

* Paul Chakravarti (paul.chakravarti@gmail.com)

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