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Gmail Email
ASecuritySend emails via Gmail SMTP using App Password authentication.
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name: gmail-email
description: Send emails via Gmail SMTP using App Password authentication.
---
# Gmail Email Skill
Send emails via Gmail SMTP.
## Setup
1. **Enable 2-Factor Authentication** on your Gmail account
2. **Generate App Password**:
- Go to https://myaccount.google.com/apppasswords
- Sign in to your Google account
- Select "Mail" and your device
- Generate password and save it
3. **Configure credentials**:
```bash
export GMAIL_USER="your-email@gmail.com"
export GMAIL_APP_PASSWORD="your-16-char-app-password"
```
Or create a `.env` file in the skill directory:
```
GMAIL_USER=your-email@gmail.com
GMAIL_APP_PASSWORD=your-16-char-app-password
```
## Usage
```bash
python3 scripts/send_email.py \
--to "recipient@example.com" \
--subject "Subject line" \
--body "Email body text"
```
## Requirements
- Python 3.6+
- No additional packages needed (uses stdlib smtplib)
Files in this skill
- SKILL.md
- scripts/send_email.py
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