How to send an email with Gmail as provider using Python?

Question

I am trying to send email (Gmail) using python, but I am getting following error.

Traceback (most recent call last):  
File \"emailSend.py\", line 14, in <         


        

Answer 1

You need to say EHLO before just running straight into STARTTLS:

server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com:587')
server.ehlo()
server.starttls()

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Also you should really create From:, To: and Subject: message headers, separated from the message body by a blank line and use CRLF as EOL markers.

E.g.

msg = "\r\n".join([
  "From: user_me@gmail.com",
  "To: user_you@gmail.com",
  "Subject: Just a message",
  "",
  "Why, oh why"
  ])