[Tutor] SMTP Module Help

[Damon Timm]

On 1/6/09, Marco Petersen <marco.m.petersen at gmail.com> 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.

I used this example to get emailing from python through gmail smtp to work:

http://codecomments.wordpress.com/2008/01/04/python-gmail-smtp-example/

Note, there are a couple errors in the code that prevent it from
working out-of-the-box ... however, if you read the comments they get
worked out.

Also, I think I would echo what the other folks mentioned here, is
that you probably need to specify the port (587) as in:

server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587)

Damon

>
> 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?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Marco
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