Well that's very nice of Python to have an SMTP server module.

I did a very similar thing in the past that was an email-sms proxy with the email end being a Postfix email server. It was incredibly painful configuring postfix to pipe emails directly into a Go program I had written. All the docs were close but none got me all the way there. Neat to see how much easier it could have been.

It is indeed!

I decided to try it out the idea after seeing that the Python standard library had the SMTP support builtin. Without that I probably would have punted and just written a webhook. (Or _gasp_, used regular email -- but even that requires configuring some sort of server on the build machine).

Slack does this natively now for paid accounts: http://slackhq.com/post/126629257535/email

Now to get a Slack account. How much do they cost a month?

For most small use cases $0/month https://slack.com/pricing