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kdubs
kdubs

Reputation: 946

Python emailer not working

I am trying to write a Python class that will send emails using Python's smtplib libraries. I got it to work with standard Gmail, but am having trouble getting the config to work with other accounts.

Emailer Class config and send method:

def configure(self,  serverLogin, serverPassword, fromAddr, toAddr, serverHost='mail.myserver.edu', serverPort=465):
    self.server=smtplib.SMTP(serverHost,serverPort) #set the server host/port - currently configured for gmail
    self.server.ehlo()
    self.server.starttls()
    self.server.ehlo()
    self.server.login(serverLogin, serverPassword)  #login to senders email
    self.fromAddr = fromAddr
    self.toAddr = toAddr

def send(self):
    msgText = email.MIMEText.MIMEText("\n".join(self.message))
    self.msg.attach(msgText) 
    print "Sending email to %s " % self.toAddr
    text = self.msg.as_string() #conver the message contents to string format
    self.server.sendmail(self.fromAddr, self.toAddr, text)  #send the email

Emailer Test method:

def test(self):
    message = "Like a boss"  #body message of the email
    attachment = ["/Desktop/testImage2"]    #list of attachments
    image = ["/Desktop/testImage2"]
    emailer = Emailer() 
    emailer.addAttachment(attachment)
    emailer.addToMessage(message,image)
    emailer.setSubject("Python Test")
    emailer.configure(serverLogin="loginname", serverPassword="password", fromAddr="[email protected]", toAddr=["[email protected]"])
    emailer.send()

I set up my email account successfully in other mail clients (like Outlook) using this information, and the classes work just fine when I use serverHost = 'smtp.gmail.com' and serverPort = 587. However, when I run the test() class in the terminal with my non-Gmail server information, the code appears to hang on this bit:

/Users/anaconda/lib/python2.7/smtplib.pyc in __init__(self, host, port, local_hostname, timeout)
254         self.esmtp_features = {}
255         if host:
--> 256             (code, msg) = self.connect(host, port)
257             if code != 220:
258                 raise SMTPConnectError(code, msg)

/Users/anaconda/lib/python2.7/smtplib.pyc in connect(self, host, port)
315             print>>stderr, 'connect:', (host, port)
316         self.sock = self._get_socket(host, port, self.timeout)
--> 317         (code, msg) = self.getreply()
318         if self.debuglevel > 0:
319             print>>stderr, "connect:", msg

/Users/anaconda/lib/python2.7/smtplib.pyc in getreply(self)
359         while 1:
360             try:
--> 361                 line = self.file.readline(_MAXLINE + 1)
362             except socket.error as e:
363                 self.close()

/Users/anaconda/lib/python2.7/socket.pyc in readline(self, size)
474             while True:
475                 try:
--> 476                     data = self._sock.recv(self._rbufsize)
477                 except error, e:
478                     if e.args[0] == EINTR:

KeyboardInterrupt:

Can anyone tell me why it's getting stuck here?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 6972

Answers (3)

kdubs
kdubs

Reputation: 946

So it turns out the problem was that I needed to be using SMTP_SSL instead of just SMTP because of the security settings on my server.

Upvotes: 5

Mateus Milanez
Mateus Milanez

Reputation: 125

Try the telnet test for you server, the python error described is connection problem. Try telnet mail.myserver.edu 465 for example.

Upvotes: 0

Mateus Milanez
Mateus Milanez

Reputation: 125

It's maybe is connection problem. Check the access using telnet and check the server answer.

telnet smtp.gmail.com 587

Trying 64.233.186.109...
Connected to smtp.gmail.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 smtp.gmail.com ESMTP f103sm809119qkh.38 - gsmtp

Upvotes: 0

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