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On Monday, 24 December 2012 08:08:12 UTC+5:30, Robert Montgomery  wrote:
> I am writing a script that will send an email using an account I set up
> 
> in gmail. It is an smtp server using tls on port 587, and I would like
> 
> to use a password hash in the (python) script for login rather than
> 
> plain text. Is this do-able? Details please.

No. The password is encrypted with TLS I think so I believe you shouldn't worry much about security.