Follow is my code from the python manage.py shell and the error that appears. I am testing this because django send_mail was giving me the same error so I tried to reproduce it in the shell
>>> import smtplib
>>> server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587)
>>> server.set_debuglevel(1)
>>> server.ehlo()
send: 'ehlo PKL-FKHAN-LT.mgc.mentorg.com\r\n'
reply: '250-smtp.gmail.com at your service, [58.27.158.222]\r\n'
reply: '250-SIZE 35882577\r\n'
reply: '250-8BITMIME\r\n'
reply: '250-STARTTLS\r\n'
reply: '250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES\r\n'
reply: '250-PIPELINING\r\n'
reply: '250-CHUNKING\r\n'
reply: '250 SMTPUTF8\r\n'
reply: retcode (250); Msg: smtp.gmail.com at your service, [58.27.158.222]
SIZE 35882577
8BITMIME
STARTTLS
ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
PIPELINING
CHUNKING
SMTPUTF8
(250, 'smtp.gmail.com at your service, [58.27.158.222]\nSIZE 35882577\n8BITMIME\
nSTARTTLS\nENHANCEDSTATUSCODES\nPIPELINING\nCHUNKING\nSMTPUTF8')
>>> server.starttls()
send: 'STARTTLS\r\n'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
File "C:\Python27\lib\smtplib.py", line 645, in starttls
(resp, reply) = self.docmd("STARTTLS")
File "C:\Python27\lib\smtplib.py", line 394, in docmd
return self.getreply()
File "C:\Python27\lib\smtplib.py", line 365, in getreply
+ str(e))
SMTPServerDisconnected: Connection unexpectedly closed: [Errno 10054] An existin
g connection was forcibly closed by the remote host
I went through all the questions and most problems arise after this step, so I must be missing something very basic here.
EDIT 1 Following are the email setting in the settings.py
EMAIL_BACKEND = "django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend"
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'removed' #this is my gmails account email
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = "removed" #this is the gmails account password
SERVER_EMAIL = "same as the EMAIL_HOST_USER"
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL=EMAIL_HOST_USER
EDIT 2: I just tested it on a another computer using python 3. the same error. This means that there is some basic fault in my workflow.
