---
id: email-to
version: "0.1.0"
license: MIT license
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: abandoned
---

# email-to — Simplyify sending HTML emails

License: permissive · Maintenance: abandoned · Downloads: 480.9K/mo

## What it is and what it does

email-to is a thin wrapper around Python's standard email and SMTP modules that reduces boilerplate when sending HTML emails. It accepts markdown content, converts it to HTML using markdown, inlines CSS styles using premailer, and handles SMTP connection and message sending in a few method calls instead of the dozen or more lines required by the standard library.

The package provides three main patterns: quick_email for one-off sends, a message builder for constructing emails line-by-line (useful in monitoring scripts), and deferred server binding for cases where SMTP details are not known upfront. It is abandoned as of 2019, with no updates since its 0.1.0 release in 2017, and targets only Python 2.6–3.5.

Use it for:

- Sending alert or status emails from monitoring scripts where you want markdown formatting without boilerplate.
- Building HTML emails with inline CSS styling from simple markdown content in legacy Python 2 or early Python 3 codebases.
- Reducing SMTP setup code in small scripts that send a few templated emails with consistent styling.
- Prototyping email-sending logic quickly without writing full MIME multipart message construction.
- Conditionally building email bodies line-by-line based on runtime state (e.g., appending errors or warnings).

## Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts above — verify before relying.

Wraps Python's standard email modules to simplify sending HTML emails with markdown content and inline CSS styling.

No. The package is abandoned (last commit 2019-07-23) and targets only Python 2.6–3.5, all end-of-life. Its dependencies (markdown, premailer) may have drifted. Modern Python projects should use actively maintained alternatives like Flask-Mail, django-anymail, or direct SMTP with email.mime for better compatibility, security updates, and support. Install only if you are locked into legacy Python and cannot upgrade.

## Install

pip install email-to
uv add email-to
poetry add email-to

## Installing email-to

Before you install: Low friction to install, but the package is abandoned—last commit was 2019-07-23, over six years ago. Targets Python 2.6–3.5, which are all end-of-life. Use only if you are locked into legacy Python versions or need minimal dependencies.

License in practice: MIT license (permissive). You may use, modify, and distribute this package freely in commercial or private projects, with no warranty.

Quickstart:

pip install email-to

import email_to

server = email_to.EmailServer('smtp.gmail.com', 587, 'user@gmail.com', 'password')
server.quick_email('recipient@example.com', 'Subject', ['# Heading', 'Body text'], style='h1 {color: blue}')

Requires markdown and premailer as runtime dependencies. SMTP server credentials must be provided at runtime.

Verify before relying:

- Whether the package works reliably with modern Python versions despite targeting only 2.6–3.5.
- Whether markdown and premailer versions are pinned or if dependency drift has introduced incompatibilities.
- Current state of the GitHub repository and whether it accepts pull requests or is truly unmaintained.

## Package facts

- License: MIT license (permissive)
- Python support: unspecified
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: abandoned
- Downloads: 480.9K/month (top 15,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

send html email python, markdown to email, simple email library, html email with css, email formatting helper, smtp wrapper, email template builder, email-sending, markdown-to-html, abandoned

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