Cant send email via python using gmail - smtplib.SMTPException: SMTP AUTH extension not supported by server

Question

I just want to send an email in python with an attachment

import smtplib, os
from email.MIMEMultipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.MIMEBase import MIMEBase
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Answer 1

You need a call to starttls() before you login:

smtp = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com:587')
smtp.starttls()
smtp.login('fu@gmail.com', 'fu')

Also, your send_from should be a str, not a list:

send_from='fu@gmail.com'

Note that smtp.starttls() calls smtp.ehlo() implicitly:

If there has been no previous EHLO or HELO command this session, this method tries ESMTP EHLO first. https://docs.python.org/2/library/smtplib.html#smtplib.SMTP.starttls