CODEWITHSUNDEEP
google-app-engineemail
SKSK
SKSK

Reputation: 1263

Error sending e-mail via SMTP server on App Engine development server

I am trying to send Email using this sample code and these command-line options:

dev_appserver.py --smtp_host=smtp.gmail.com --smtp_port=25 [email protected]_password=k1tt3ns myapp

However, I receive the following error when my app tries to send e-mail (on the development server):

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Program Files\Google\google_appengine\google\appengine\ext\webapp\__init__.py", line 500, in __call__
    handler.post(*groups)
  File "C:\Documents and Settings\desk\Desktop\apps\temp\main.py", line 139, in post
    """)
  File "C:\Program Files\Google\google_appengine\google\appengine\api\mail.py", line 205, in send_mail
    message.send(make_sync_call)
  File "C:\Program Files\Google\google_appengine\google\appengine\api\mail.py", line 474, in send
    make_sync_call('mail', self._API_CALL, message, response)
  File "C:\Program Files\Google\google_appengine\google\appengine\api\apiproxy_stub_map.py", line 68, in MakeSyncCall
    apiproxy.MakeSyncCall(service, call, request, response)
  File "C:\Program Files\Google\google_appengine\google\appengine\api\apiproxy_stub_map.py", line 240, in MakeSyncCall
    stub.MakeSyncCall(service, call, request, response)
  File "C:\Program Files\Google\google_appengine\google\appengine\api\apiproxy_stub.py", line 80, in MakeSyncCall
    method(request, response)
  File "C:\Program Files\Google\google_appengine\google\appengine\api\mail_stub.py", line 203, in _Send
    self._SendSMTP(mime_message, smtp_lib)
  File "C:\Program Files\Google\google_appengine\google\appengine\api\mail_stub.py", line 133, in _SendSMTP
    smtp.login(self._smtp_user, self._smtp_password)
  File "C:\Python26\lib\smtplib.py", line 552, in login
    raise SMTPException("SMTP AUTH extension not supported by server.")
SMTPException: SMTP AUTH extension not supported by server.

Upvotes: 13

Views: 4354

Answers (5)

Martin Omander
Martin Omander

Reputation: 3604

For anyone looking up this answer in 2018 or later: this workaround is no longer needed. You can now use the command like the original poster wrote it:

dev_appserver.py --smtp_host=smtp.gmail.com --smtp_port=25 [email protected] --smtp_password=yyy myapp

Upvotes: 0

Rubens Gomes
Rubens Gomes

Reputation: 482

The Google account being used to send emails from an application must have some security settings disabled in https://security.google.com/settings.

  • Disable access for less secure apps : Access for less secure apps: Turn On

If you continue to have authentication issues you may have to review the Devices & activity at the https://security.google.com/settings/security/activity

Upvotes: 0

user3049407
user3049407

Reputation: 31

The other methods are no longer necessary:

Setting the following in /appengine/api/mail_stub.py

if self._allow_tls and smtp.has_extn ('STARTTLS'):
  smtp.starttls ()

works for me on appengine sdk version 1.9.15

Upvotes: 0

Korneel
Korneel

Reputation: 41

@Raymond

Execute the following command in the Terminal:

find / -name "mail_stub.py" -type f 2>/dev/null

In my case it returns:

/Applications/GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app/Contents/Resources/GoogleAppEngine-default.bundle/Contents/Resources/google_appengine/google/appengine/api/mail_stub.py

Upvotes: 4

Blixt
Blixt

Reputation: 50169

dev_appserver.py doesn't support TLS which is required by Gmail. You can enable it by adding a few lines in api/mail_stub.py:

# After smtp.connect(self._smtp_host, self._smtp_port)
smtp.ehlo()
smtp.starttls()
smtp.ehlo()

Note! That's the quick and dirty solution. You should add some kind of flag to tell it whether you want to use TLS or not, as it is not always desired.

Upvotes: 18

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