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+MIT License
+
+Copyright (c) 2017 Kierán Meinhardt
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
+of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
+in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
+to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
+copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
+furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
+copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
+OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
+SOFTWARE.
diff --git a/gmail-send/README.md b/gmail-send/README.md
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+# gmail-send
+Command line interface for sending Gmail emails
+
+## Prerequisites
+
+* [Python 3](https://python.org)
+
+## Usage
+
+```
+usage: gmail-send.py [-h] [-s SUBJECT] [-v] [--html]
+                     gmail_user gmail_pwd recipient
+
+Send an email message via SMTP. Message body is read from stdin.
+
+positional arguments:
+  gmail_user            sender's gmail username (without domain)
+  gmail_pwd             sender's gmail password
+  recipient             recipient's email address (with domain)
+
+optional arguments:
+  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
+  -s SUBJECT, --subject SUBJECT
+                        email subject
+  -v, --verbose         output sent message
+  --html                send email as HTML
+```
+
+## Example
+
+```sh
+$ echo 'Hello World!' | ./gmail-send.py -s 'Howdy!' john.smith $(cat john.smith.passwd) max.mustermann@gmail.com
+```
diff --git a/gmail-send/gmail-send.py b/gmail-send/gmail-send.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+import sys
+
+def send_email(user, pwd, recipient, subject, body, content_type):
+    import smtplib
+    from email.mime.text import MIMEText
+
+    gmail_user = user
+    gmail_pwd = pwd
+
+    FROM = user
+    TO = recipient if type(recipient) is list else [recipient]
+    SUBJECT = subject
+    TEXT = body
+
+    # Prepare actual message
+    message = MIMEText(TEXT, content_type, "utf-8")
+    message["From"] = FROM
+    message["To"] = ", ".join(TO)
+    message["Subject"] = SUBJECT
+    message_string = message.as_string()
+
+    try:
+        server = smtplib.SMTP("smtp.gmail.com", 587)
+        server.ehlo()
+        server.starttls()
+        server.login(gmail_user, gmail_pwd)
+        server.sendmail(FROM, TO, message_string)
+        server.close()
+        return message_string
+    except:
+        print("Failed to send mail: ", sys.exc_info())
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    import argparse
+
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
+        description="Send an email message via SMTP. Message body is read from stdin."
+    )
+    parser.add_argument("gmail_user", help="sender's gmail username (without domain)")
+    parser.add_argument("gmail_pwd", help="sender's gmail password")
+    parser.add_argument("recipient", help="recipient's email address (with domain)")
+    parser.add_argument("-s", "--subject", help="email subject")
+    parser.add_argument("-v", "--verbose", help="output sent message", action="store_true")
+    parser.add_argument("--html", help="send email as HTML", action="store_true")
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+
+    body = sys.stdin.read()
+    msg = send_email(
+        args.gmail_user,
+        args.gmail_pwd,
+        args.recipient,
+        args.subject if args.subject is not None else "",
+        body,
+        "html" if args.html else "plain"
+    )
+    if args.verbose:
+        print("\n%s" % msg)
+