Send email using Python script

Useful Python script to send an email.

#!/usr/bin/python

import smtplib

host = 'smtpserver.example.com'
sender = 'sender@example.com'
recipients = ['recipient@example.com']

message = """From: <sender@example.com>
To: <recipient@example.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-type: text/html
Subject: IGNORE test message subject

IGNORE test message body
Some additional content

"""

try:
   smtpObj = smtplib.SMTP(host)
   smtpObj.sendmail(sender, recipients, message)
   print "E-mail sent successfully"
except SMTPException:
   print "Error: unable to send email"