# Import smtplib for the actual sending function import smtplib # Import the email modules we'll need from email.message import EmailMessage # Open the plain text file whose name is in textfile for reading. with open(textfile) as fp: # Create a text/plain message msg = EmailMessage() msg.set_content(fp.read()) # me == the sender's email address # you == the recipient's email address msg['Subject'] = f'The contents of {textfile}' msg['From'] = me msg['To'] = you # Send the message via our own SMTP server. s = smtplib.SMTP('localhost') s.send_message(msg) s.quit()