Sending a simple email

This recipe will give you a brief description on how to use the standard library to connect to the SMTP server and send an email.

Getting ready

In this recipe, we will use a Google Gmail account to send the email message. With a few configurations, this recipe will be useful for other SMTP servers as well.

How to do it...

1. Open the console and create the folder chapter07/recipe10.
2. Navigate to the directory.
3. Create the smtp.go file with the following content:

        package main

        import (
          "crypto/tls"
          "fmt"
          "net/smtp"
        )

        func main() {

          var email string
          fmt.Println("Enter username for smtp: ")
          fmt.Scanln(&email)

          var pass string
          fmt.Println("Enter password for smtp: ")
          fmt.Scanln(&pass)

          auth := smtp.PlainAuth("", email, pass, "smtp.gmail.com")

          c, err := smtp.Dial("smtp.gmail.com:587")
          if err != nil {
            panic(err...