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Send an email using python script

Asked 2010-03-20T06:13:18.640
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Today I needed to send email from a Python script. As always I searched Google and found the following script that fits to my need.

import smtplib

SERVER = "localhost"

FROM = "sender@example.com"
TO = ["user@example.com"] # must be a list

SUBJECT = "Hello!"

TEXT = "This message was sent with Python's smtplib."

# Prepare actual message

message = """\
From: %s
To: %s
Subject: %s

%s
""" % (FROM, ", ".join(TO), SUBJECT, TEXT)

# Send the mail

server = smtplib.SMTP(SERVER)
server.sendmail(FROM, TO, message)
server.quit()

But when I tried to run the program, I got the following error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Python26/email.py", line 1, in <module>
    import smtplib
  File "C:\Python26\lib\smtplib.py", line 46, in <module>
    import email.utils
  File "C:/Python26/email.py", line 24, in <module>
    server = smtplib.SMTP(SERVER)
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'SMTP'

How can i solve this problem? Any one can help me?

Thanks in advance, Nimmy.


changed the name to emailsendin .py. But I got the following error

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python26\emailsending.py", line 24, in <module>
    server = smtplib.SMTP(SERVER)
  File "C:\Python26\lib\smtplib.py", line 239, in __init__
    (code, msg) = self.connect(host, port)
  File "C:\Python26\lib\smtplib.py", line 295, in connect
    self.sock = self._get_socket(host, port, self.timeout)
  File "C:\Python26\lib\smtplib.py", line 273, in _get_socket
    return socket.create_connection((port, host), timeout)
  File "C:\Python26\lib\socket.py", line 512, in create_connection
    raise error, msg
error: [Errno 10061] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it
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You have managed to shadow the stdlib email module by calling your script email.py. Rename your script to something not in the stdlib and try again.

answered 2010-03-20T06:20:23.167

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