so telnet .. gives me the following: 220 smtp.gmail.com ESMTP a207sm2856704wme.27 - gsmtp Is that good?
[email protected] schrieb am Freitag, 30. Juli 2021 um 16:57:03 UTC+2: > 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]. 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