I'm running Rasbian Buster and use Msmtp to send emails from the command line and it works just fine.
When I try to send emails using Python it fails miserably, I've tried various python examples from the net, e.g.
# Sending Email Alerts via Zoho
#
#
import smtplib
server = smtplib.SMTP_SSL('smtp.zoho.com',port=465) #server for sending the email
server.ehlo() # simple starting of the connection
server.login('test_email@zoho.com','pwd_12345') # login credentials and password
msg = """From:test_email@zoho.com
Subject: Test Email \n
To: recipient_email@gmail.com \n"""
# This is where the email content goes. It could be information about the error, time of day, where in the script, etc.
server.sendmail('test_email@zoho.com','recipient_email@gmail.com',msg) # this is where the email is sent to the recipient
server.quit() # exit the connection
... but I unfortunately I always get the following error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/smtplib.py", line 387, in getreply
line = self.file.readline(_MAXLINE + 1)
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/socket.py", line 589, in readinto
return self._sock.recv_into(b)
ConnectionResetError: [Errno 104] Connection reset by peer
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/pi/test_email_python_06.py", line 6, in <module>
server = smtplib.SMTP('smtpauths.bluewin.ch',port=465) #server for sending the email
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/smtplib.py", line 251, in __init__
(code, msg) = self.connect(host, port)
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/smtplib.py", line 338, in connect
(code, msg) = self.getreply()
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/smtplib.py", line 391, in getreply
+ str(e))
smtplib.SMTPServerDisconnected: Connection unexpectedly closed: [Errno 104] Connection reset by peer
As a newbee any hint would be appreciated.
Thanks!
