How to send an email with Gmail as provider using Python?

Question

I am trying to send email (Gmail) using python, but I am getting following error.

Traceback (most recent call last):   File "emailSend.py", line 14, in <module>   server.login(username,password)   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/smtplib.py", line 554, in login   raise SMTPException("SMTP AUTH extension not supported by server.")   smtplib.SMTPException: SMTP AUTH extension not supported by server. 

The Python script is the following.

import smtplib fromaddr = '[email protected]' toaddrs  = '[email protected]' msg = 'Why,Oh why!' username = '[email protected]' password = 'pwd' server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com:587') server.starttls() server.login(username,password) server.sendmail(fromaddr, toaddrs, msg) server.quit() 

Answer 1

def send_email(user, pwd, recipient, subject, body):     import smtplib      FROM = user     TO = recipient if isinstance(recipient, list) else [recipient]     SUBJECT = subject     TEXT = body      # Prepare actual message     message = """From: %s\nTo: %s\nSubject: %s\n\n%s     """ % (FROM, ", ".join(TO), SUBJECT, TEXT)     try:         server = smtplib.SMTP("smtp.gmail.com", 587)         server.ehlo()         server.starttls()         server.login(user, pwd)         server.sendmail(FROM, TO, message)         server.close()         print 'successfully sent the mail'     except:         print "failed to send mail" 

if you want to use Port 465 you have to create an SMTP_SSL object:

# SMTP_SSL Example server_ssl = smtplib.SMTP_SSL("smtp.gmail.com", 465) server_ssl.ehlo() # optional, called by login() server_ssl.login(gmail_user, gmail_pwd)   # ssl server doesn't support or need tls, so don't call server_ssl.starttls()  server_ssl.sendmail(FROM, TO, message) #server_ssl.quit() server_ssl.close() print 'successfully sent the mail'