SMTP sending mail failure

Question

I've got a simple SMTP mailing example from here and my modified it. My code is:

import smtplib
sender = 'igor.savinkin@gmail.com'
receivers = ['igor.savinkin@gmail.com']
message = """From: From Igor <igor.savinkin@gmail.com>
To: To Igor Savinkin <igor.savinkin@gmail.com>
Subject: SMTP e-mail test
This is a test e-mail message from SMTP python.
"""

try:
   smtpObj = smtplib.SMTP('localhost')
   smtpObj.sendmail(sender, receivers, message)         
   print "Successfully sent email to " + receivers.__str__()
except SMTPException:
   print "Error: unable to send email"

Output is:

Successfully sent email to ['igor.savinkin@gmail.com']

Yet, in actuality I find no mails like these in my inbox. The spam folder is checked too! What's wrong? I use rhc (OpenShift) platform.

As you are using a more restricted environment(openshift), maybe smtp port 25 is blocked. Check iptables. — duck, Jun 11 '15 at 11:23
I used `except Exception,e:` and printed it .which showed `[Errno 10061] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it` mine is a windows machine — The6thSense, Jun 11 '15 at 11:35
I've done more search and succeded in sending mail thru the [Gmail help](http://stackoverflow.com/a/26369282/1230477) — Igor Savinkin, Jun 11 '15 at 12:23

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 11 '15 at 12:23

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You send your mail to a local SMTP server (smtpObj = smtplib.SMTP('localhost')). IMHO it accepts it (request is syntactically correct) but is then not allowed (or not configured) to forward it to gmail. I'm not using OpenShift so I do not know how SMTP is configured there.

You should control how the local SMTP server is configured.

answered Jun 11 '15 at 12:23

Serge Ballesta

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most likely it's the case – Igor Savinkin Jun 11 '15 at 12:25

SMTP sending mail failure

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