I am trying to send an email with python, but it keeps saying ssl.SSLError: [SSL: WRONG_VERSION_NUMBER] wrong version number (_ssl.c:1056)
. Here is my code:
server = smtplib.SMTP_SSL('smtp.mail.com', 587) server.login("something0@mail.com", "password") server.sendmail( "something0@mail.com", "something@mail.com", "email text") server.quit()
Do you know what is wrong?
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Answer
The port for SSL
is 465 and not 587, however when I used SSL
the mail arrived to the junk mail.
For me the thing that worked was to use TLS
over regular SMTP
instead of SMTP_SSL
.
Note that this is a secure method as TLS
is also a cryptographic protocol (like SSL).
import smtplib, ssl port = 587 # For starttls smtp_server = "smtp.gmail.com" sender_email = "my@gmail.com" receiver_email = "your@gmail.com" password = input("Type your password and press enter:") message = """ Subject: Hi there This message is sent from Python.""" context = ssl.create_default_context() with smtplib.SMTP(smtp_server, port) as server: server.ehlo() # Can be omitted server.starttls(context=context) server.ehlo() # Can be omitted server.login(sender_email, password) server.sendmail(sender_email, receiver_email, message)
provided thanks to the real python tutorial.