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 "", line 1, in 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

Accepted Answer

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)
```

SOCKET ERROR: [Errno 111] Connection refused

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