[Tutor] So close! But ... error: (10054, 'Connection reset by peer')

[Grady Henry]

I think that I am so close to getting this simple program to run correctly:

# Import smtplib for the actual sending function
import smtplib

# Import the email modules we'll need
from email.MIMEText import MIMEText

# Open a plain text file for reading.  For this example, assume that
# the text file contains only ASCII characters.
fp = open(r'C:\Documents and Settings\User\Desktop\\text3.txt')
# Create a text/plain message
msg = MIMEText(fp.read())
fp.close()

# me == the sender's email address
# you == the recipient's email address
msg['Subject'] = 'The contents of %s' % 'C:\Documents and Settings\User\Desktop\\text3.txt'
msg['From'] = 'gwhjr at cox.net'
msg['To'] = 'gwhjr at bigfoot.com'

# Send the message via our own SMTP server, but don't include the
# envelope header.
s = smtplib.SMTP()
s.set_debuglevel(1)
s.connect(host='', port=25)
__init__(self, host='', port=25, local_hostname=None)
s.sendmail('gwhjr at cox.net', ['gwhjr at bigfoot.com'], msg.as_string())
s.quit()
s.close()

But when I run it using IDLE, I get the following:


IDLE 1.1.3      ==== No Subprocess ====
>>> 
connect: ('', 25)
connect: ('', 25)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Documents and Settings\User\Desktop\textsender.py", line 24, in ?
    s.connect(host='', port=25)
  File "C:\Python24\lib\smtplib.py", line 307, in connect
    (code, msg) = self.getreply()
  File "C:\Python24\lib\smtplib.py", line 348, in getreply
    line = self.file.readline()
  File "C:\Python24\lib\socket.py", line 340, in readline
    data = self._sock.recv(self._rbufsize)
error: (10054, 'Connection reset by peer')
>>> 

Can anybody help?

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