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pythongmailimaplib
ricky
ricky

Reputation: 11

Not connect gmail with python. Error is b'[AUTHENTICATIONFAILED] Invalid credentials (Failure)'

I want to check gmail's mail.

I wrote this code with python.

import imaplib
import email

UserName = "my_gmail"
PassName = "my_gmail_password"

gmail = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL("imap.gmail.com", '993')
gmail.login(UserName, PassName)
gmail.select("")

head, data = gmail.search(None, 'ALL')

but occured this error.

error Traceback (most recent call last) in 8 9 gmail = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL("imap.gmail.com", '993') ---> 10 gmail.login(UserName, PassName) 11 gmail.select("") 12

~/.pyenv/versions/3.7.4/lib/python3.7/imaplib.py in login(self, user, password) 596 typ, dat = self._simple_command('LOGIN', user, self._quote(password)) 597 if typ != 'OK': --> 598 raise self.error(dat[-1]) 599 self.state = 'AUTH' 600 return typ, dat

error: b'[AUTHENTICATIONFAILED] Invalid credentials (Failure)'

Why this error occure? And how do I slove this error? Please tell me.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5624

Answers (1)

yo1122
yo1122

Reputation: 321

Are you using 2-FA? if so, you have to set an application-specific password via gmail, and send that password instead of your regular password. Otherwise, this post might help.

It might cause a security hazard - but at least for the development stage you can go to your google account security settings and allow less secure apps (blocked by default).

Upvotes: 1

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