[Tutor] SMTP Module Help

[Ole Henning Jensen]

Marco Petersen wrote:
> I'm using Python 2.5.4. I wanted to try out the SMTP module. I tried to 
> send an email through my Gmail account but it keeps saying that the 
> connection was refused.
> 
> This is the code that I used :
> 
> import smtplib
> msg = 'Test'
> 
> 
> server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com')
> server.set_debuglevel(1)
> server.ehlo()
> server.starttls()
> server.ehlo()
> server.login('marco.m.petersen at gmail.com', 'password')
> server.sendmail('marco.m.petersen at gmail.com', 
> 'marcoleepetersen at gmail.com', msg)
> server.close()
> 
> This error message keeps coming up:
> 
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "C:/Python25/send_mail.py", line 5, in <module>
>    server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com')
>  File "C:\Python25\Lib\smtplib.py", line 244, in __init__
>    (code, msg) = self.connect(host, port)
>  File "C:\Python25\Lib\smtplib.py", line 310, in connect
>    raise socket.error, msg
> error: (10061, 'Connection refused')
> 
> 
> Can anyone help me with this?
> 

I must admit that I know nothing of the SMTP module, but I do know that 
with gmail you need to use an SSL secure connection on port 995.

I doesn't seem to be aplied in your script as far as I can tell.

Best Regards
Ole