Hi Python Tutor folks I am stuck with an issue, so am coming to the Pythonistas who rescue me everytime :)
I am trying to send out email programmatically, from a gmail a/c, using smtplib, using the following chunk of code (b/w [ & ] below) [ import smtplib from email.mime.text import MIMEText #uname, pwd are username & password of gmail a/c i am trying to send from server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com:587') server.starttls() # get response(220, '2.0.0 Ready to start TLS') server.login(uname,pwd) # get response(235, '2.7.0 Accepted') toaddrs = ['x...@gmail.com', 'y...@gmail.com' ] # list of To email addresses msg = MIMEText('email body') msg['Subject'] = 'email subject' server.sendmail(fromaddr, toaddrs, msg.as_string()) ] The code above works perfectly fine on my local machine, but fails on the production server at the university where i work( all ports other than port 80 are blocked) :( So , when i try to run the 2 py statements (in bold below) on a python prompt from the production server, which has port 587 blocked, i get the following error { *>>> import smtplib* *>>> server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com:587')* Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/smtplib.py", line 239, in __init__ (code, msg) = self.connect(host, port) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/smtplib.py", line 295, in connect self.sock = self._get_socket(host, port, self.timeout) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/smtplib.py", line 273, in _get_socket return socket.create_connection((port, host), timeout) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/socket.py", line 514, in create_connection raise error, msg socket.error: [Errno 101] Network is unreachable } 1. How can i overcome this ? A friend suggested , that i could use something called smtp relay, which would solve my problem, but would be time-consuming & a pain to set up. I did some cursory googling & searching on stackoverflow but could not find any good, well explained results. I dont know anything about SMTP. Anybody has any recommendations on a good explanation on smtp relay & how to set it up for sending email from a gmail a/c using a python script ? 2. Also, is there a more elegant/cleaner/graceful solution to my problem than using an smtp relay ? Any & all explanations/links/code snippets/thoughts/ideas/suggestions/feedback/comments/ of the Python tutor community would be greatly appreciated. Thanks a ton cheers ashish email : ashish.makani domain:gmail.com
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