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Hello,

I am learning Python and the first thing I managed to do is sending an email to myself. I used the code below that I found online I pretty much understand everything it does except the line msg.attach(MIMEText(message, 'plain')) that I need help with : what does it mean/do please ?

import smtplib
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.mime.text import MIMEText

#
message = "Your message"  
msg = MIMEMultipart()
password = "makjdsgfjsbfgjju"  
msg['From'] = "[email protected]" 
msg['To'] = "[email protected]"  
msg['Subject'] = "title"  
msg.attach(MIMEText(message, 'plain'))
server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com: 587')
server.starttls()
server.login(msg['From'], password)
server.sendmail(msg['From'], msg['To'], msg.as_string())
server.quit()