How to fix ssl.SSLError: [SSL: WRONG_VERSION_NUMBER] wrong version number (_ssl.c:1056)?
I am trying to send an email with python, but it keeps saying ssl.SSLError: [SSL: WRONG_VERSION_NUMBER] wrong version number (_ssl.c:1056). Here is my code:
server = smtplib.SMTP_SSL('smtp.mail.com', 587)
server.login("[email protected]", "password")
server.sendmail(
"[email protected]",
"[email protected]",
"email text")
server.quit()
Do you know what is wrong?
Answer
The port for SSL is 465 and not 587, however when I used SSL the mail arrived to the junk mail.
For me the thing that worked was to use TLS over regular SMTP instead of SMTP_SSL.
Note that this is a secure method as TLS is also a cryptographic protocol (not unlike SSL).
import smtplib, ssl
port = 587 # For starttls
smtp_server = "smtp.gmail.com"
sender_email = "[email protected]"
receiver_email = "[email protected]"
password = input("Type your password and press enter:")
message = """\
Subject: Hi there
This message is sent from Python."""
context = ssl.create_default_context()
with smtplib.SMTP(smtp_server, port) as server:
server.ehlo() # Can be omitted
server.starttls(context=context)
server.ehlo() # Can be omitted
server.login(sender_email, password)
server.sendmail(sender_email, receiver_email, message)
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