I am able to send from one gmail account to another gmail account and from one outlook account to another outlook account. But I am facing problem when I am trying to send mail from outlook to gmail.
Here is the code
import smtplib
content ='example email stuff here'
email='[email protected]'
password="password"
fromemail="[email protected]"
receive="[email protected]"
mail=smtplib.SMTP('smtp-mail.outlook.com',587)
mail.ehlo()
mail.starttls()
mail.login(email,password)
mail.sendmail(fromemail,receive,content)
mail.close()
When I am running the script I am getting the following error
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "smtp_google.py", line 7, in <module>
mail=smtplib.SMTP('smtp-mail.outlook.com',587)
File "C:\Python27\lib\smtplib.py", line 256, in __init__
(code, msg) = self.connect(host, port)
File "C:\Python27\lib\smtplib.py", line 316, in connect
self.sock = self._get_socket(host, port, self.timeout)
File "C:\Python27\lib\smtplib.py", line 291, in _get_socket
return socket.create_connection((host, port), timeout)
File "C:\Python27\lib\socket.py", line 575, in create_connection
raise err
socket.error: [Errno 10060] A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after
a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond
Solution 1:
Try by giving timeout in:
mail=smtplib.SMTP('smtp-mail.outlook.com',587)
as
mail=smtplib.SMTP('smtp-mail.outlook.com',587, timeout=120)
or try connecting via SSL instead of TLS/STARTTLS
mail=smtplib.SMTP_SSL('smtp-mail.outlook.com',587)
solution 2: Your email account must allow smtp, which is not necessarily enabled by default. You can try to change the settings by following the steps given here enable smtp authentication