Email Messaging

This package provides a command line interface for sending emails via Gmail's SMTP server. It also provides a Python and C# method to send emails.

This package will only work with emails provided through Gmail.

Remember to # to your account and then go to this link to allow less secure apps to access your email.

How To Use (Windows):

• Clone this repository to your computer
• OPTIONAL: Add the win32 directory to your PATH enviornment variable. Now, this command line script may be executed from any directory.
• If you did not add the win32 directory to your PATH, navigate to the win32 directory.
• Execute the following command: sendMail [subject] [body] [from] [to] [password]
• EXAMPLE:

sendMail "test" "This is a test." "me@gmail.com" "you@example.com" "mygmailpassword"

How To Use (Unix):

• Install python if you don't already have it
• Clone this repository to your computer
• Navigate to the python directory
• Execute the following command: python commandline.py [subject] [body] [from] [to] [password]
• EXAMPLE:

python commandline.py "test" "This is a test." "me@gmail.com" "you@example.com" "mygmailpassword"

How To Import The Python Script Into Your Another Python Package (For Use In Your Python Applications):

• Clone this repository to your computer
• Copy the file "main.py" into your python application
• Import the sendMail function from "main.py" by using the following python syntax:

from main import sendMail

How To Use The C# Script:

• Clone this repository to your computer
• Copy the DLL compiled for the version of .NET corresponding to your project into your project's references
• Add the following "using" statement to your code:

using Email;

• To send an email, first declare an email message object with the following syntax:

EmailMessage message = new EmailMessage('subject', 'body', 'from', 'to', 'password');

• Send the message with:

message.Send();

• If you are using .NET 5+, you can send the message with await:

await message.SendAsync();