SOCKET ERROR: [Errno 111] Connection refused

Question

I am using simple python lib for the SMTP But i am getting this error:

import smtplib smtpObj = smtplib.SMTP('localhost')  Traceback (most recent call last):   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>   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 284, in _get_socket     return socket.create_connection((port, host), timeout)   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/socket.py", line 571, in create_connection     raise err socket.error: [Errno 111] Connection refused 

Using python-2.7

Answer 1

Start a simple SMTP server with Python like so:

python -m smtpd -n -c DebuggingServer localhost:1025 

or you can also try gmail smtp setting

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

Answer 2

if you:

python -m smtpd -n -c DebuggingServer localhost:1025 

as suggested by Allen Thomas, then make sure you init:

server = smtplib.SMTP(host='localhost', port=1025) 

with matching port number, here: 1025.