diff --git a/lua_examples/email/send_email_smtp.lua b/lua_examples/email/send_email_smtp.lua
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..637cd638
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+++ b/lua_examples/email/send_email_smtp.lua
@@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
+require("base64")
+
+local MY_EMAIL = "esp8266@domain.com"
+local EMAIL_PASSWORD = "123456"
+
+local SMTP_SERVER = "smtp.server.com"
+local SMTP_PORT = "587"
+
+local mail_to = "to_email@domain.com"
+
+local SSID = "ssid"
+local SSID_PASSWORD = "password"
+
+wifi.setmode(wifi.STATION)
+wifi.sta.config(SSID,SSID_PASSWORD)
+wifi.sta.autoconnect(1)
+
+local email_subject = ""
+local email_body = ""
+local receive_processed = false
+local count = 0
+
+local smtp_socket = net.createConnection(net.TCP,0)
+
+function display(sck,response)
+     print(response)
+end
+
+function do_next()
+            if(count == 0)then
+                count = count+1
+                local IP_ADDRESS = wifi.sta.getip()
+                smtp_socket:send("HELO "..IP_ADDRESS.."\r\n")
+            elseif(count==1) then
+                count = count+1
+                smtp_socket:send("AUTH LOGIN\r\n")
+            elseif(count == 2) then
+                count = count + 1
+                smtp_socket:send(base64.enc(MY_EMAIL).."\r\n")
+            elseif(count == 3) then
+                count = count + 1
+                smtp_socket:send(base64.enc(EMAIL_PASSWORD).."\r\n")
+            elseif(count==4) then
+                count = count+1
+               smtp_socket:send("MAIL FROM:<" .. MY_EMAIL .. ">\r\n")
+            elseif(count==5) then
+                count = count+1
+               smtp_socket:send("RCPT TO:<" .. mail_to ..">\r\n")
+            elseif(count==6) then
+                count = count+1
+               smtp_socket:send("DATA\r\n")
+            elseif(count==7) then
+                count = count+1
+                local message = string.gsub(
+                "From: \"".. MY_EMAIL .."\"<"..MY_EMAIL..">\r\n" ..
+                "To: \"".. mail_to .. "\"<".. mail_to..">\r\n"..
+                "Subject: ".. email_subject .. "\r\n\r\n"  ..
+                email_body,"\r\n.\r\n","")
+                
+                smtp_socket:send(message.."\r\n.\r\n")
+            elseif(count==8) then
+               count = count+1
+                 tmr.stop(0)
+                 smtp_socket:send("QUIT\r\n")
+            else
+               smtp_socket:close()
+            end
+end
+
+function connected(sck)
+    tmr.alarm(0,5000,1,do_next)
+end
+
+function send_email(subject,body)
+     email_subject = subject
+     email_body = body
+     smtp_socket:on("connection",connected)
+     smtp_socket:on("receive",display)
+     smtp_socket:connect(SMTP_PORT,SMTP_SERVER)
+end
+
+send_email(
+     "ESP8266",
+[[Hi,
+How are your IoT projects coming along?
+Best Wishes,
+ESP8266]])
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
diff --git a/lua_modules/base64/base64.lua b/lua_modules/base64/base64.lua
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e3523a31
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lua_modules/base64/base64.lua
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+-- Lua 5.1+ base64 v3.0 (c) 2009 by Alex Kloss <alexthkloss@web.de>
+-- licensed under the terms of the LGPL2
+
+local moduleName = ... 
+local M = {}
+_G[moduleName] = M
+
+-- character table string
+local b='ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/'
+ 
+-- encoding
+function M.enc(data)
+    return ((data:gsub('.', function(x) 
+        local r,b='',x:byte()
+        for i=8,1,-1 do r=r..(b%2^i-b%2^(i-1)>0 and '1' or '0') end
+        return r;
+    end)..'0000'):gsub('%d%d%d?%d?%d?%d?', function(x)
+        if (#x < 6) then return '' end
+        local c=0
+        for i=1,6 do c=c+(x:sub(i,i)=='1' and 2^(6-i) or 0) end
+        return b:sub(c+1,c+1)
+    end)..({ '', '==', '=' })[#data%3+1])
+end
+ 
+-- decoding
+function M.dec(data)
+    data = string.gsub(data, '[^'..b..'=]', '')
+    return (data:gsub('.', function(x)
+        if (x == '=') then return '' end
+        local r,f='',(b:find(x)-1)
+        for i=6,1,-1 do r=r..(f%2^i-f%2^(i-1)>0 and '1' or '0') end
+        return r;
+    end):gsub('%d%d%d?%d?%d?%d?%d?%d?', function(x)
+        if (#x ~= 8) then return '' end
+        local c=0
+        for i=1,8 do c=c+(x:sub(i,i)=='1' and 2^(7-i) or 0) end
+        return string.char(c)
+    end))
+end
+
+return M