I am trying to diagnose why sending email through Amazon SES is not working via python.
The following example demonstrates the problem, where user
and pass
are set to the appropriate credentials.
>>> import smtplib
>>> s = smtplib.SMTP_SSL("email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com", 465)
>>> s.login(user, pw)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/smtplib.py", line 549, in login
self.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/smtplib.py", line 510, in ehlo_or_helo_if_needed
(code, resp) = self.helo()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/smtplib.py", line 372, in helo
(code,msg)=self.getreply()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/smtplib.py", line 340, in getreply
raise SMTPServerDisconnected("Connection unexpectedly closed")
smtplib.SMTPServerDisconnected: Connection unexpectedly closed
This message is not particularly useful, and have tried other vraiations, but can't seem to get it to work.
I can send email using my thunderbird email client with these settings, so my assumption is that I am mission something TLS-related.
I don't think SMTP_SSL works anymore with SES. One must use starttls()
smtp = smtplib.SMTP("email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com")
smtp.starttls()
smtp.login(SESSMTPUSERNAME, SESSMTPPASSWORD)
smtp.sendmail(me, you, msg)