[Tutor] sending email via smtplib

[Prasad, Ramit]

Saad Javed wrote:
> 
> I don't think using SSL works with hotmail. I tried using:
> 
> smtplib.SMTP_SSL("smtp.live.com", 587)

You need to use port 25 not 587. 
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/hotmail/send-receive-email-from-mail-client

> smtplib.login(user, passwd)
> ...
> 
> That gave this error:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "sendemail.py", line 22, in <module>
>     smtp = smtplib.SMTP_SSL(smtp_srv, 587)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/smtplib.py", line 776, in __init__
>     SMTP.__init__(self, host, port, local_hostname, timeout)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/smtplib.py", line 249, in __init__
>     (code, msg) = self.connect(host, port)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/smtplib.py", line 309, in connect
>     self.sock = self._get_socket(host, port, self.timeout)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/smtplib.py", line 782, in _get_socket
>     new_socket = ssl.wrap_socket(new_socket, self.keyfile, self.certfile)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ssl.py", line 381, in wrap_socket
>     ciphers=ciphers)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ssl.py", line 143, in __init__
>     self.do_handshake()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ssl.py", line 305, in do_handshake
>     self._sslobj.do_handshake()
> ssl.SSLError: [Errno 1] _ssl.c:504: error:140770FC:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:unknown protocol
> 
	

~Ramit


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