Getting error `No module named mime.text` [Python]

Question

This code is "suppose" to send an email.

import smtplib
#SERVER = "localhost"

FROM = '[email protected]'

TO = ["[email protected]"] # 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('myserver')
server.sendmail(FROM, TO, message)
server.quit()

I get this error message.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\myCpu\Documents\myFiles\python\test wy.py", line 1, in <module>
    import smtplib
  File "C:\Python27\lib\smtplib.py", line 46, in <module>
    import email.utils
  File "C:/Users/myCpu/Documents/myFiles/python\email.py", line 5, in <module>
ImportError: No module named mime.text

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Using:

Python 2.7

Windows 7 Professionnal

Gmail (@gmail.com)

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Can anyone help me with this code?

Solution 1

Rename the file you are working on named email.py to something else. It is likely breaking imports in your libraries.

Solution 2

This is what I did for gmail. Hope this sloves your problem

 from email.mime.text import MIMEText

    def construct_mesage():
      message = MIMEText(message_text)
      message['to'] = to
      message['from'] = sender
      message['subject'] = subject
      return {'raw': base64.urlsafe_b64encode(message.as_string())}

Comments

[Dat Ha]

Do I simply run this?? or is something else needed??

[Januka samaranyake]

This give you a raw object you can this to sever

[Dat Ha]

I get this now: No module named utils

[Januka samaranyake]

refer this stackoverflow.com/questions/32874326/…

[Dat Ha]

last thing... global name 'base64' is not defined

[Januka samaranyake]

"import base64"

[Januka samaranyake]

Let us continue this discussion in chat.

[Dat Ha]

check messagess

[Dat Ha]

This is what i get:server = smtplib.SMTP('myserver') File "C:\Python27\lib\smtplib.py", line 256, in __init__ (code, msg) = self.connect(host, port) File "C:\Python27\lib\smtplib.py", line 316, in connect self.sock = self._get_socket(host, port, self.timeout) File "C:\Python27\lib\smtplib.py", line 291, in _get_socket return socket.create_connection((host, port), timeout) File "C:\Python27\lib\socket.py", line 557, in create_connection for res in getaddrinfo(host, port, 0, SOCK_STREAM): gaierror: [Errno 11004] getaddrinfo failed

[PythonWizard]

I also got the same issue in Python 3.8. So that my solution is: from email.mime.text import MIMEText