So I can login to and send mail through gmail using smtplib (using the script below), but I was just wondering if using oauth2 was an option like with imaplib? I didn’t see anything on the smtplib documentation page about oauth and I haven’t found anything googling. Thanks.
#! /usr/bin/python
import smtplib
to = 'myemailaddress'
gmail_user = 'myemailaddress'
gmail_pwd = 'passwd'
smtpserver = smtplib.SMTP("smtp.gmail.com",587)
smtpserver.ehlo()
smtpserver.starttls()
smtpserver.ehlo
smtpserver.login(gmail_user, gmail_pwd)
header = 'To:' + to + '\n' + 'From: ' + gmail_user + '\n' + 'Subject:testing \n'
print header
msg = header + '\n this is test msg from me \n\n'
smtpserver.sendmail(gmail_user, to, msg)
print 'done!'
smtpserver.close();
Edit:
Thanks to samy.vilar for the very detailed explaination provided in his answer. However, I’m having a little trouble. Here is my script:
#! /usr/bin/python
import oauth2 as oauth
import oauth2.clients.smtp as smtplib
consumer = oauth.Consumer('anonymous', 'anonymous')
token = oauth.Token('1/MI6B2DqJP4FEkDRLUKrD5l46sQ0758-2ucEKBY-DeB0', 'NysqNqVTulFsdHpSRrPP56sF')
url = "https://mail.google.com/mail/b/testing.oauth.1@gmail.com/smtp/"
conn = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.googlemail.com', 587)
conn.set_debuglevel(True)
conn.ehlo('test')
conn.starttls()
conn.authenticate(url, consumer, token)
header = 'To:testing.oauth.1@gmail.com\n' + 'From: testing.oauth.1@gmail.com\n' + 'Subject:testing \n'
msg = header + '\n this is test msg from me \n\n'
conn.sendmail('testing.oauth.1@gmail.com', 'testing.oauth.1@gmail.com', msg)
What is puzzling me, is that it appears to authenticate ok:
send: 'ehlo test\r\n'
reply: '250-mx.google.com at your service, [75.173.8.127]\r\n'
reply: '250-SIZE 35882577\r\n'
reply: '250-8BITMIME\r\n'
reply: '250-STARTTLS\r\n'
reply: '250 ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES\r\n'
reply: retcode (250); Msg: mx.google.com at your service, [75.173.8.127]
SIZE 35882577
8BITMIME
STARTTLS
ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
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: 'AUTH XOAUTH R0VUIGh0dHBzOi8vbWFpbC5nb29nbGUuY29tL21haWwvYi90ZXN0aW5nLm9hdXRoLjFAZ21haWwuY29tL3NtdHAvIG9hdXRoX2JvZHlfaGFzaD0iMmptajdsNXJTdzB5VmIlMkZ2bFdBWWtLJTJGWUJ3ayUzRCIsb2F1dGhfY29uc3VtZXJfa2V5PSJhbm9ueW1vdXMiLG9hdXRoX25vbmNlPSI3Nzc0ODMyIixvYXV0aF9zaWduYXR1cmU9IkxuckZHODdxdHRxZUhsUlQ1emRndmtEZ1UzTSUzRCIsb2F1dGhfc2lnbmF0dXJlX21ldGhvZD0iSE1BQy1TSEExIixvYXV0aF90aW1lc3RhbXA9IjEzNDIxNDI3NzIiLG9hdXRoX3Rva2VuPSIxJTJGTUk2QjJEcUpQNEZFa0RSTFVLckQ1bDQ2c1EwNzU4LTJ1Y0VLQlktRGVCMCIsb2F1dGhfdmVyc2lvbj0iMS4wIg==\r\n'
reply: '235 2.7.0 Accepted\r\n'
reply: retcode (235); Msg: 2.7.0 Accepted
But then when it comes to sending the email, it seems to forget that conn was already authenticated:
send: 'ehlo [192.168.2.4]\r\n'
reply: '250-mx.google.com at your service, [75.173.8.127]\r\n'
reply: '250-SIZE 35882577\r\n'
reply: '250-8BITMIME\r\n'
reply: '250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN XOAUTH\r\n'
reply: '250 ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES\r\n'
reply: retcode (250); Msg: mx.google.com at your service, [75.173.8.127]
SIZE 35882577
8BITMIME
AUTH LOGIN PLAIN XOAUTH
ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
send: 'mail FROM:<testing.oauth.1@gmail.com> size=107\r\n'
reply: '530-5.5.1 Authentication Required. Learn more at\r\n'
reply: '530 5.5.1 http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?answer=14257 tu7sm3163839pbc.55\r\n'
reply: retcode (530); Msg: 5.5.1 Authentication Required. Learn more at
5.5.1 http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?answer=14257 tu7sm3163839pbc.55
send: 'rset\r\n'
reply: '250 2.1.5 Flushed tu7sm3163839pbc.55\r\n'
reply: retcode (250); Msg: 2.1.5 Flushed tu7sm3163839pbc.55
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./gmail_send3.py", line 47, in <module>
conn.sendmail('testing.oauth.1@gmail.com', 'testing.oauth.1@gmail.com', msg)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/smtplib.py", line 713, in sendmail
raise SMTPSenderRefused(code, resp, from_addr)
smtplib.SMTPSenderRefused: (530, '5.5.1 Authentication Required. Learn more at\n5.5.1 http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?answer=14257 tu7sm3163839pbc.55', 'testing.oauth.1@gmail.com')
Interesting, I think it is possible, I found the following links
https://developers.google.com/google-apps/gmail/oauth_overview
UPDATE
https://github.com/google/gmail-oauth2-tools/wiki/OAuth2DotPyRunThrough
This is the new walk through using oauth2, it seems like xoauth has being declared obsolete, I’ve update the URL to get the older version
xoauth.pyfile, in case any one still needs it, though it looks like Google has changed their API and this walkthrough is no longer applicable.you can use xoauth directly or https://github.com/simplegeo/python-oauth2/ to actually communicate I recommend the latter, its more versatile.
Apparently you first need to download
xoauth.pyscript.lets test it:
looks like we are good to go.
you may want to set up a
virtualenvand taken right from the docs:
for smtp:
and to send emails:
make sure you authenticate before sending out emails.
hope this helps …
UPDATE
There may be a bug that requires re-authentication, the following should work.
though you can also use
xoauthdirectly as such:this seems to always work, I should submit a ticket to
python-oauth2team, thank you.THOUGH THIS ALSO SEEM TO ALWAYS WORK
it looks you need to call
conn.ehlo()before authenticating.