On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 4:45 AM, Marco Petersen <marco.m.peter...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm using Python 2.5.4. I wanted to try out the SMTP module. I tried to send > an email through my Gmail account but it keeps saying that the connection > was refused. > > This is the code that I used : > > import smtplib > msg = 'Test' > > > server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com')
>From the docs here http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=77662 Google SMTP uses port 587, not the standard SMTP port 25. Try server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587) Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor