flask-mail gmail: connection refused

Question

I\'m getting the following error when I attempt to use flask-mail to send an email through my gmail account.

error: [Errno 10061] No connection could

Answer 1

In addition to zero323's answer, adding the configuration before creating a Mail object should help, but if it gives an SMTPAuthentication error with a gmail server, then just for testing purpose one may allow less secure apps to login for a while - https://myaccount.google.com/security#signin