[gentoo-user] Very small email sender thingy

[Andrew Lowe]

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