Connection refused when sending mail with Flask-Mail

Question

I'm having trouble sending email with flask-mail ( http://pythonhosted.org/flask-mail/ )

from flask.ext.sqlalchemy import SQLAlchemy
from flask import Flask, request, session, g, redirect, url_for, abort, render_template, flash
from flask.ext.mail import Mail, Message
import os

# configuration
DEBUG = True
SECRET_KEY = 'hidden'
USERNAME = 'secret'
PASSWORD = 'secret'

MAIL_SERVER='smtp.gmail.com'
MAIL_PORT=587
MAIL_USE_TLS = False
MAIL_USE_SSL= True
MAIL_USERNAME = '[email protected]'
MAIL_PASSWORD = 'password'

app = Flask(__name__)
mail = Mail(app)

@app.route('/minfo')
def send_mail():
    msg = Message(
      'Hello',
       sender='[email protected]',
       recipients=
       ['[email protected]'])
    msg.body = "This is the email body"
    mail.send(msg)
    return "Sent"

When I go to /minfo I get

12:25:57 web.1  |     return socket.create_connection((port, host), timeout)
12:25:57 web.1  |   File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/socket.py", line 571, in create_connection
12:25:57 web.1  |     raise err
12:25:57 web.1  | error: [Errno 61] Connection refused

I have no idea what is breaking or how to fix it, been googling for hours. Has someone experienced this?

Answer 1

1. You must set up flask config:

   app = Flask(__name__)
   app.config.from_object(__name__)
   mail = Mail(app)
   

2. Use 465 port.