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# Import smtplib library
import smtplib

# Import email library
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart

# Import email body library
from email.mime.text import MIMEText

# Only receive email if subscribed to CodeFriends
receiver_email = "youremail@example.com"

# Sender email setup
sender_email = "admin_email"
sender_password = "admin_password"
smtp_server = "smtp.gmail.com"
port = 587

# Construct the email
msg = MIMEMultipart('alternative')

msg['Subject'] = "[CodeFriends] Hello, this is CodeFriends."
msg['From'] = sender_email
msg['To'] = receiver_email

# HTML format for email body
html = """
<html>
  <body>
    <h1>HTML Email</h1>
    <p>
      <span style="color:blue;">You have</span> successfully
      <b>completed</b> sending the email!
    </p>
  </body>
</html>
"""

# Attach MIME part
html_email = MIMEText(html, 'html')
msg.attach(html_email)


# Connect to SMTP server
server = smtplib.SMTP(smtp_server, port)

# TLS connection (email encryption)
server.starttls()

# Email login
server.login(sender_email, sender_password)

# Convert message to string
text = msg.as_string()

# Send email
server.sendmail(sender_email, receiver_email, text)

# Quit SMTP server connection
server.quit()

print("Email sent successfully! Please check your inbox.")

# Try the Email Automation Course

Imagine receiving an email with **the latest global news at `9 AM every day`**, or automatically sharing **stock market trends with your team at `10 AM every Monday`**.

With Python, you can **automate email sending and receiving with just a few lines of code**.

Taking it a step further, you could **automatically send the content you collected through web scraping** to yourself on a regular basis, or insert large-scale data (like participant names and emails) into email templates (such as event invitations) to **send bulk emails.**

As with previous lessons, there's no need to fully understand all the code yet!

Check to ensure your CodeFriends signup email is correctly input on the 11th line of the code editor at `receiver_email`, then press the green `▶︎ Run` button 🙂

> *Note:* To prevent spam, the email practice environment **only allows sending emails from the CodeFriends signup email address**.

<br />

```python title="Example of receiver_email"
# Only possible to send emails with CodeFriends signup email
receiver_email = "contact@codefriends.net"
```

<br />

You cannot send an email without being logged in.

Manually input your CodeFriends signup email address on the right side of the 11th line `receiver_email =`, or verify that it is correctly entered, then press the `▶︎ Run` button to try sending an email.

Remember to wrap your email address in double quotes, just like `"contact@codefriends.net"`.

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