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is there a command or fuction in python that deals with email?

like:

email(ibmceo@ibm.com, 'Hello, my name is Bill. How are you doing at IBM?', email.cc(),attach("C:\123321.txt"))

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Short answer: there is no single built-in email(...) function. Python’s standard library gives two pieces you combine: the email package to build messages and smtplib to send them. As suggested, use the SMTP client for delivery; and pointed to helpful example pages for composition. For modern Python the EmailMessage API makes To/Cc/attachments straightforward.

Example (replace placeholders with your server, addresses and credentials):

from email.message import EmailMessage
import smtplib
import mimetypes
from pathlib import Path

msg = EmailMessage()
msg['Subject'] = 'Hello from Python'
msg['From'] = 'sender@example.com'
msg['To'] = 'recipient@example.com'
msg['Cc'] = 'cc@example.com'
msg.set_content('Hello — this is a plain-text body.')

p = Path('attachment.txt')
ctype, _ = mimetypes.guess_type(str(p))
if ctype is None:
    ctype = 'application/octet-stream'
maintype, subtype = ctype.split('/', 1)
with p.open('rb') as f:
    msg.add_attachment(f.read(), maintype=maintype, subtype=subtype, filename=p.name)

with smtplib.SMTP('smtp.example.com', 587) as smtp:
    smtp.starttls()
    smtp.login('username', 'password')
    smtp.send_message(msg)

Practical tips: send_message will derive recipients from your To/Cc/Bcc headers, but you can pass explicit addresses if you prefer. Use port 587 + STARTTLS or port 465 + SMTP_SSL depending on the provider. Do not hard-code credentials—use environment variables or a secrets store. For Gmail and many providers you now need an app password or OAuth2 (not the legacy “less secure apps” option). For testing, send to a local/debug SMTP server or a sandbox service rather than real recipients. Common failures are authentication errors, wrong server/port, and firewall/DNS issues—inspect exception messages and enable verbose SMTP debugging where needed.

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