How to send an email with Gmail as provider using Python?
email, gmail, python, smtp, smtp-auth
Solution
You need to say `EHLO` before just running straight into `STARTTLS`:
server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com:587')
server.ehlo()
server.starttls()
Also you should really create `From:`, `To:` and `Subject:` message headers, separated from the message body by a blank line and use `CRLF` as EOL markers.
E.g.
msg = "\r\n".join([
"From: user_me@gmail.com",
"To: user_you@gmail.com",
"Subject: Just a message",
"",
"Why, oh why"
])
Note:
In order for this to work you need to enable "Allow less secure apps" option in your gmail account configuration. Otherwise you will get a "critical security alert" when gmail detects that a non-Google apps is trying to login your account.
Problem
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 = 'user_me@gmail.com' toaddrs = 'user_you@gmail.com' msg = 'Why,Oh why!' username = 'user_me@gmail.com' password = 'pwd' server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com:587') server.starttls() server.login(username,password) server.sendmail(fromaddr, toaddrs, msg) server.quit() ```