title: smtplib and gmail - python script problems
body: <p>Here's my script:</p>
  
  <pre><code>#!/usr/bin/python
  
  import smtplib
  msg = 'Hello world.'
  
  server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com',587) #port 465 or 587
  server.ehlo()
  server.starttls()
  server.ehlo()
  server.login('myname@gmail.com','mypass')
  server.sendmail('myname@gmail.com','somename@somewhere.com',msg)
  server.close()
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I'm just trying to send an email from my gmail account.  The script uses starttls because of gmail's requirement.  I've tried this on two web hosts, 1and1 and webfaction.  1and1 gives me a 'connection refused' error and webfaction reports no error but just doesn't send the email.  I can't see anything wrong with the script, so I'm thinking it might be related to the web hosts.  Any thoughts and comments would be much appreciated.</p>
  
  <p>EDIT: I turned on debug mode.  From the output, it looks like it sent the message successfully...I just never receive it.</p>
  
  <pre><code>send: 'ehlo web65.webfaction.com\r\n'
  reply: '250-mx.google.com at your service, [174.133.21.84]\r\n'
  reply: '250-SIZE 35651584\r\n'
  reply: '250-8BITMIME\r\n'
  reply: '250-STARTTLS\r\n'
  reply: '250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES\r\n'
  reply: '250 PIPELINING\r\n'
  reply: retcode (250); Msg: mx.google.com at your service, [174.133.21.84]
  SIZE 35651584
  8BITMIME
  STARTTLS
  ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
  PIPELINING
  send: 'STARTTLS\r\n'
  reply: '220 2.0.0 Ready to start TLS\r\n'
  reply: retcode (220); Msg: 2.0.0 Ready to start TLS
  send: 'ehlo web65.webfaction.com\r\n'
  reply: '250-mx.google.com at your service, [174.133.21.84]\r\n'
  reply: '250-SIZE 35651584\r\n'
  reply: '250-8BITMIME\r\n'
  reply: '250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN\r\n'
  reply: '250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES\r\n'
  reply: '250 PIPELINING\r\n'
  reply: retcode (250); Msg: mx.google.com at your service, [174.133.21.84]
  SIZE 35651584
  8BITMIME
  AUTH LOGIN PLAIN
  ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
  PIPELINING
  send: 'AUTH PLAIN *****\r\n'
  reply: '235 2.7.0 Accepted\r\n'
  reply: retcode (235); Msg: 2.7.0 Accepted
  send: 'mail FROM:&lt;myname@gmail.com&gt; size=12\r\n'
  reply: '250 2.1.0 OK 4sm652580yxq.48\r\n'
  reply: retcode (250); Msg: 2.1.0 OK 4sm652580yxq.48
  send: 'rcpt TO:&lt;myname@gmail.com&gt;\r\n'
  reply: '250 2.1.5 OK 4sm652580yxq.48\r\n'
  reply: retcode (250); Msg: 2.1.5 OK 4sm652580yxq.48
  send: 'data\r\n'
  reply: '354  Go ahead 4sm652580yxq.48\r\n'
  reply: retcode (354); Msg: Go ahead 4sm652580yxq.48
  data: (354, 'Go ahead 4sm652580yxq.48')
  send: 'Hello world.\r\n.\r\n'
  reply: '250 2.0.0 OK 1240421143 4sm652580yxq.48\r\n'
  reply: retcode (250); Msg: 2.0.0 OK 1240421143 4sm652580yxq.48
  data: (250, '2.0.0 OK 1240421143 4sm652580yxq.48')
  </code></pre>