i am trying send email using web2py with gmail and using smtp setting i have attached all code

[deepak sandhu]

i am trying to create a form in web2py which sends message to an email account on submission mainly i used SQLFORM.factory to create the form then i used gluon.tools import mail to import the send email functionality. i have set up everything i can think of but still on running this code in web2py it gives out that "fail to send email sorry".

i think the problem is in smtp setting or something. 

from gluon.tools import Mail
mail = Mail()

mail.settings.server = 'sm...@gmail.com:465'
mail.settings.sender = 'mye...@gmail.com'
mail.settings.login = 'mye...@gmail.com:secret'




def index(): 

    form = SQLFORM.factory(
    Field('name', requires=IS_NOT_EMPTY()),
    Field('email', requires =[ IS_EMAIL(error_message='invalid email!'), IS_NOT_EMPTY() ]),
    Field('subject', requires=IS_NOT_EMPTY()),
    Field('message', requires=IS_NOT_EMPTY(), type='text')
    )
    if form.process().accepted:
        session.name = form.vars.name
        session.email = form.vars.email
        session.subject = form.vars.subject
        session.message = form.vars.message

        x = mail.send(to=['other...@yahoo.com'],
            subject='project minerva',
            message= "Hello this is an email send from minerva.com from contact us form.\nName:"+ session.name+" \nEmail : " + session.email +"\nSubject : "+session.subject +"\nMessage : "+session.message+ ".\n "
        )

        if x == True:
            response.flash = 'email sent sucessfully.'
        else:
            response.flash = 'fail to send email sorry!'

        #response.flash = 'form accepted.'
    elif form.errors:
        response.flash='form has errors.'

    return dict(form=form)

[Massimo Di Pierro]

This does not look right

mail.settings.server = 'sm...@gmail.com:465'

perhaps should be

mail.settings.server = 'smtp.gmail.com:465'

[Jessica Le]

I've been getting the following error: 

**WARNING:web2py:Mail.send failure:[Errno 11004] getaddrinfo failed**

for the following code: 

        mail = Mail()

    mail.settings.server = 'smtp.gmail.com:587'

    mail.settings.sender = 'em...@gmail.com'

    mail.settings.login = 'em...@gmail.com:password'

    mail.send(to=[email],subject= 'TEST',message='helloWorld')

Can someone please assist me? I can't seem to find any documentation on what getaddrinfo is and where in the code the error is happening. 

Thanks! 

[NeoToren]

Problem is gmail...

See solution here

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/web2py/CU_1qWYixjI/YYczniWQ1mMJ

or at SO:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19085738/i-am-trying-send-email-using-web2py-with-gmail-and-using-smtp-setting-i-have-att/21269760#21269760

[Michael Beller]

If you have two step authentication enabled in your gmail account you need to use an application specific password ...

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/1173270?hl=en

[NeoToren]

That's true !

All the issues I have experienced with sending email ("unable to send email") from Web2Py via Gmail, have been caused by the 2-steps authentication which was enabled on my gmail account.

In order for Web2Py to be able to send email via gmail:

1. Read Google instructions at https://support.google.com/mail/answer/1173270?hl=en

2. When logged in with your gmail account, go to https://security.google.com/settings/security/apppasswords?pli=1 and enter the once-only pwd Google provides with the app you intend to allow use the gmail services (I have mentioned "Web2Py")

3. In the model where the mail services are defined - use exactly what's recommended in the W2P book with the new pwd mentioned above - and it works !

Thanks for mentioning it Michael

NeoToren