So I made the adjustments to my alarm.py and gave it a go with my weather station reporting when the temperature is over 70f (which is everyday here in Sunny Florida!) In both cases using port 587 and 465 with my Google Workspace account (aka paid gmail for a domain), I received alerts from my machine. So it is most likely not a port problem.
So what I recommend is going on the terminal and checking to see if you can connect directly to smtp.gmail.com at ports 465 and 587 on the machine that is hosting your weewx instance: telnet smtp.gmail.com 587 If it responds back with a 200, then type in HELO <yourdomain> and see if it responds back. If you get a connection refused, then you are having problems connecting to that server. I would diagnosis and research the problem on your end further (eg firewalls, gmail security setup, etc.) Doug On Friday, July 30, 2021 at 10:17:03 AM UTC-4 Doug Jenkins wrote: > Matthias: > > I will give this a go on my weewx instance and see what the issue is. I > have a gmail account and have utilized this smtp library in the past with > other Python 3 solutions. I will let you know. > > Doug > > On Friday, July 30, 2021 at 10:08:05 AM UTC-4 [email protected] wrote: > >> Thank you very much for your suggestions. >> I tried port 587 in weewx.conf which did not work (both with username + @ >> gmail.com and without). >> >> Then I tried adding the port in the alarm.py with the following result >> (botth with/without @gmail.com in weewx.conf) >> Jul 30 16:00:24 loxberry /weewxd: alarm: Alarm expression "outTemp > >> 24.0" evaluated True at 2021-07-30 16:00:00 CEST (1627653600) >> Jul 30 16:00:24 loxberry /weewxd: alarm: unable to use SMTP_SSL >> connection. >> Jul 30 16:00:24 loxberry /weewxd: alarm: unable to sound alarm. Reason: >> [Errno 111] Connection refused >> >> >> code in alarm.py: >> try: >> # First try end-to-end encryption >> s = smtplib.SMTP_SSL(self.smtp_host, timeout=self.timeout, >> port=587) >> syslog.syslog(syslog.LOG_DEBUG, "alarm: using SMTP_SSL on >> port 587") >> >> [email protected] schrieb am Freitag, 30. Juli 2021 um 15:47:49 >> UTC+2: >> >>> Matthias: >>> >>> Gmail requires a SSL Authenticated connection using TLS. It is >>> configured to look for traffic from port 587. >>> >>> I looked at the alarm.py code on the master branch in github >>> (weewx/alarm.py >>> at master · weewx/weewx (github.com) >>> <https://github.com/weewx/weewx/blob/master/examples/alarm.py> and it >>> is already set appropriately for the smtplib package for SSL, but the port >>> is not expressively set, so it is defaulting to port 465 per the smtplib >>> package spec ( smtplib — SMTP protocol client — Python 3.9.6 >>> documentation <https://docs.python.org/3/library/smtplib.html>) >>> >>> So I would do the following: >>> 1. I would try Gary's suggestion in putting the port after the smtp_host >>> line. >>> 2. If that does not work, then I would modify the alarm.py code to >>> supply the port in this manner >>> >>> >>> # Starting at line 168 >>> try: >>> >>> # First try end-to-end encryption >>> s = smtplib.SMTP_SSL(self.smtp_host, timeout=self.timeout, port=587) >>> syslog.syslog(syslog.LOG_DEBUG, "alarm: using SMTP_SSL on port 587") >>> >>> Please let me know if that helps. >>> >>> Doug >>> On Friday, July 30, 2021 at 8:22:30 AM UTC-4 gjr80 wrote: >>> >>>> What about smtp_host = smtp.gmail.com:587 ? If you search the forums >>>> for ‘smtp.gmail’ you will find a few threads where folks have had gmail >>>> smtp issues plus a few suggestions for troubleshooting. >>>> >>>> Gary >>>> >>>> On Friday, 30 July 2021 at 22:14:19 UTC+10 [email protected] wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hello all together, >>>>> >>>>> it seems I can't get the alarm.py running. >>>>> I always get an error during authentication to google server: >>>>> alarm: SMTP mailer refused message with error (535, b'5.7.8 Username >>>>> and Password not accepted. Learn more at\n5.7.8 >>>>> https://support.google.com/mail/?p=BadCredentials j13sm1499223wms.24 >>>>> - gsmtp') >>>>> >>>>> I am using the following config: >>>>> >>>>> [Alarm] >>>>> expression = outTemp > 24.0 >>>>> time_wait = 1800 >>>>> smtp_host = smtp.gmail.com >>>>> smtp_user = relaymtx >>>>> smtp_password = mypassword >>>>> from = weewx >>>>> mailto = mymail >>>>> subject = Alarm from weewx! >>>>> count_treshold = 10 >>>>> >>>>> I did several attempts in changing the smtp_user by adding @gmail.com >>>>> which results in the same error. >>>>> Also tried adding port 465 to smtp.gmail.com:465 without success. >>>>> IMAP access is activated in the gmail-account. >>>>> So any help would be appreciated. >>>>> >>>>> Best regards, >>>>> Matthias >>>>> >>>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/25499a84-e8a5-4947-ba2f-49de86e331cfn%40googlegroups.com.
