Requests using smtplib module denied

Question

I have been using the smtplib module in python to send text messages from a gmail account and my requests to connect to the server recently started being denied. My code isn't anything special:

import smtplib
server = smtplib.SMTP( "smtp.gmail.com", 587 )
server.starttls()
server.login( '<gmail_address>', '<gmail_password>’ )
server.sendmail( '<from>', '<number>@mms.att.net', '<msg>’ )

An error is thrown at the 4th line

raise SMTPAuthenticationError(code, resp)
smtplib.SMTPAuthenticationError: (534,

and gmail notifies me that they have blocked a sign-in attempt from an app, because it didn't meet modern security requirements.

I'm hoping to find a work around that allows me to continue sending SMS messages using the smtplib module.

Try this: http://serverfault.com/questions/635139/how-to-fix-send-mail-authorization-failed-534-5-7-14 — noteness, Jun 13 '16 at 18:33

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 13 '16 at 18:55

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Google explain that you can lower your security settings but they don't rcommend it, and give precious little in the way of advice apart from that.

answered Jun 13 '16 at 18:55

holdenweb

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