"smtplib.SMTPServerDisconnected: please run connect() first"
 

I'm getting the error:

smtplib.SMTPServerDisconnected: please run connect() first

when I run code that is essentially identical to the code given in

http://docs.python.org/library/email-examples.html

The error happens at the line (copied verbatim from the example
linked to above):

s.sendmail(me, [you], msg.as_string())

What am I doing wrong?

kynn

P.S. I'm running this using v. 2.6.1.

P.S.2. By "essentially identical" I mean that the only change I
made to the original snippet was to initialize variables that are
not initialized in the original (namely, textfile, me, and you)

Re: "smtplib.SMTPServerDisconnected: please run connect() first"
 

kj wrote:
>
> I'm getting the error:
>
> smtplib.SMTPServerDisconnected: please run connect() first
>
> when I run code that is essentially identical to the code given in
>
> http://docs.python.org/library/email-examples.html
>
> The error happens at the line (copied verbatim from the example
> linked to above):
>
> s.sendmail(me, [you], msg.as_string())
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> kynn
>
> P.S. I'm running this using v. 2.6.1.
>
> P.S.2. By "essentially identical" I mean that the only change I
> made to the original snippet was to initialize variables that are
> not initialized in the original (namely, textfile, me, and you)

The line preceeding it,

s = smtplib.SMTP()

needs to have an e-mail server specified. E.g.

s = smtplib.SMTP('localhost') # from the 2.5 docs


Hope this helps!

~Ethan~

Re: "smtplib.SMTPServerDisconnected: please run connect() first"
 

In <mailman.1096.1255129309.2807.python-list@python.org> Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> writes:

>The line preceeding it,

>s = smtplib.SMTP()

>needs to have an e-mail server specified. E.g.

>s = smtplib.SMTP('localhost') # from the 2.5 docs

Perfect. Thanks!

kynn