smtp debugging methods

[Tim Williams]

On 14/09/2007, Sean Nakasone <seannakasone at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm having trouble with sending smtp mail.  It's hanging after the
> smtplib.SMTP() line. It doesn't works from home but not from work.  What's
> the best way to debug this?
>
> # Here's my script
> import smtplib
> msg = "Subject: Hello\n\nThis is the\nbody of the message."
> server = smtplib.SMTP("smtp.gmail.com",465)
>   # "Connection refused" normally means there is no server listening for
>   # connections on the specified IP/port-combination.
>   # use netstat -an to view connections.
> server.set_debuglevel(1)
> server.ehlo()
> server.starttls()
> server.ehlo()
> # !!! set the password
> server.login("myuser", "mypass")
> server.sendmail("...
>
> # Here's the error
> >>> server = smtplib.SMTP("smtp.gmail.com",465)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/smtplib.py", line 241, in __init__
>     (code, msg) = self.connect(host, port)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/smtplib.py", line 304, in connect
>     (code, msg) = self.getreply()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/smtplib.py", line 345, in getreply
>     line = self.file.readline()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/socket.py", line 340, in readline
>     data = self._sock.recv(self._rbufsize)
> socket.error: (113, 'Software caused connection abort')

There is no SMTP service on port 465 , its some other "service" or the
smtp server is in trouble,   try it with port 587 instead.

HTH :)