Hi all,
First up, I'm not an email admin or anything as snazzy so I'm not fully buzzword compliant.

What I'm after is a tiny app that will, when called from the prompt, send an email to any address. I have several apps that take a long time to run, think Finite Elemental Analysis and Computational Fluid Dynamics, and I want something that can send me an email upon success or failure. I can wrap everything up in a script, it's the actual email sending that I'm looking for advice on.

Off the top of my head I'm looking for something that is small, think the sort of thing that someone would write in Python to show off to their work colleagues and is 79 lines in size. This is going to be running on a Gentoo machine so Python is there and if I have to add another small Python package that's fine.

In turn the recipient address, the mail server, which is my ISP's, etc along with a text file for the message can be either command line variables or in a simple config file which is written on the fly by the original script that ran everything.

Does anyone know of such a little beasty or is this the reason I've been looking for to learn Python?

        Thoughts greatly appreciated,

                Andrew

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