python smtp gmail authentication error (sending email through gmail smtp server)

Question

Hi all,

I have the following code

import smtplib
from email.mime.text import MIMEText



smtpserver = 'smtp.gmail.com'
AUTHREQUIRED = 1 # if you need to use SMTP AUTH set to 1
smtpuser = '[email protected]'  # for SMTP AUTH, set SMTP username here
smtppass = '123456'  # for SMTP AUTH, set SMTP password here

RECIPIENTS = ['[email protected]']
SENDER = '[email protected]'

msg = MIMEText('dsdsdsdsds\n')
msg['Subject'] = 'The contents of iii'
msg['From'] = '[email protected]'
msg['To'] = ''[email protected]''

mailServer = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com',587)
mailServer.ehlo()
mailServer.starttls()
mailServer.ehlo()
mailServer.login(smtpuser, smtppass)
mailServer.sendmail(smtpuser,RECIPIENTS,msg.as_string())
mailServer.close()

this code works fine on my desktop. but it failed with this error

smtplib.SMTPAuthenticationError: (535, '5.7.1 Username and Password not accepted. Learn more at\n5.7.1 http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=14257 21sm4713429agd.11')

on my linux server.

Not sure what went wrong, should i open some port on my linux server?

Answer 1

Port 587 obviously needs to be open, but it probably is (or you wouldn't have gotten the detailed error msg in question). Python 2.5 vs 2.6 should make no difference. I think the issue has to do with "solving a captcha" once on the computer for which logins are currently getting rejected; follow the detailed instructions at the URL in the error message, i.e., http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=14257