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Belgin Android
Belgin Android

Reputation: 307

Python SMTPLIB , SSL Library Error --> smtplib.SMTPAuthenticationError: (535, b'5.7.8 Username and Password not accepted)

I got a problem with my python program. I Have entered the correct information about my email and password the program and the error is shown below 

import smtplib, SSL 

email="[email protected]"
password="my password"
port = 465

context = ssl.create_default_context()

server =smtplib.SMTP_SSL("smtp.gmail.com",port,context=context) 
server.login(email,password)
message=" Hi I Am Belgin Android "
sender_mail=email,
receiver_email="[email protected]"
server.sendmail(sender_mail,receiver_email,message)

Error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:/Users/Belgin/Desktop/Python Coding/email_sending.py", line 10, in <module>
    server.login(email,password)
  File "G:\Python\lib\smtplib.py", line 734, in login
    raise last_exception
  File "G:\Python\lib\smtplib.py", line 723, in login
    (code, resp) = self.auth(
  File "G:\Python\lib\smtplib.py", line 646, in auth
    raise SMTPAuthenticationError(code, resp)
smtplib.SMTPAuthenticationError: (535, b'5.7.8 Username and Password not accepted. Learn more at\n5.7.8  https://support.google.com/mail/?p=BadCredentials f21sm2590687pfn.71 - gsmtp')

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1946

Answers (1)

Herbert Poul
Herbert Poul

Reputation: 4893

To sum it up - I guess the problem was that Google does not allow you to log in with your default user password, especially (but not only) when using 2nd factor authentication. So for using the password for 3rd party apps it requires creating app specific passwords.

Upvotes: 2

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