Have you ever wanted to automate email?  The code below will show you how. This could be used to automate an email notification based on an attribute in a feature class, for example, if you have a traffic accident that is classified as "fatal", you could plug this code into a search cursor on your accidents features and automate an email to whoever is concerned with serious traffic accidents.

#name: playingWemail.py
#date: 20070213
#author: Kevin Bell, stealing from Justin Johnson, who was stealing from...?
#email: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
#phone: (801) 535-7131
#purpose: send some email.

import smtplib

server = "999.99.99.99" #address of SMTP server
fromaddr = "python!" #email address of sender
toaddr = " This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it " #email address of recipient

message = """To: %s
From: %s
Subject: Test Message

Hello,
This is a test message from smtplib.""" % (toaddr, fromaddr)

s = smtplib.SMTP(server)
s.sendmail(fromaddr, toaddr, message)