Python Email, [Errno 10061] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it

Question

I want to send a mail in using python, below is my code, but I got the error 10061 at the end, hope anyone can help me, thanks!

import smtplib
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Answer 1

As far as I know Gmail and other companies have security to prevent emails being sent from unknown sources, but this link can turn that kind of security off.

There you can modify the account so it will accept the email.

I use this code to send email:

import smtplib

from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart

from email.mime.text import MIMEText

from_address = 'johndoe@gmail.com'

to_address = 'johndoe@gmail.com'

message = MIMEMultipart('Foobar')

epos_liggaam['Subject'] = 'Foobar'

message['From'] = from_address

message['To'] = to_address

content = MIMEText('Some message content', 'plain')

message.attach(content)

mail = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587)

mail.ehlo()

mail.starttls()

mail.login(from_address, 'password')

mail.sendmail(from_address,to_address, message.as_string())

mail.close()