title: Gaierror from python smtplib
body: <p>This line is throwing a gaierror... any idea why? Could it be a firewall?</p>
  
  <pre><code>smtp=smtplib.SMTP(host=EMAIL_HOST,port=EMAIL_PORT)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I'm using gmail so the host is 'alt1.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com', and the port is 587.</p>