email API for Python

Here are a few common email API options for Python, depending on what you want to do:

1) Send email via SMTP (built-in Python)

If you just need to send emails, Python’s standard library works well:

import smtplib
from email.message import EmailMessage

msg = EmailMessage()
msg["Subject"] = "Test email"
msg["From"] = "you@example.com"
msg["To"] = "recipient@example.com"
msg.set_content("Hello from Python!")

with smtplib.SMTP_SSL("smtp.gmail.com", 465) as smtp:
    smtp.login("you@example.com", "your_app_password")
    smtp.send_message(msg)

2) Email service APIs

If you want a proper email API with better deliverability, tracking, templates, etc., use services like:

• SendGrid
• Mailgun
• Amazon SES
• Postmark
• Resend

Example: SendGrid

Install:

pip install sendgrid

Use:

from sendgrid import SendGridAPIClient
from sendgrid.helpers.mail import Mail

message = Mail(
    from_email='you@example.com',
    to_emails='recipient@example.com',
    subject='Hello',
    plain_text_content='This is a test email'
)

sg = SendGridAPIClient('YOUR_API_KEY')
response = sg.send(message)
print(response.status_code)

3) If you want to receive emails

You’d usually use:

• IMAP with imaplib
• a provider webhook/API (like SendGrid Inbound Parse, Mailgun routes, etc.)

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If you want, I can give you:

1. a simple SMTP example,
2. a SendGrid/Mailgun/SES example, or
3. a Python email sending function with attachments.