I want to send an Email from my outlook account using Python. I used the below code running in an AWS EC2 instance to generate an email.
import smtplib
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.office365.com', 587)
server.starttls()
server.login("<outlook_mail_id>","<outlook_password>")
server.sendmail("<outlook_mail_id>", "<recipient_email_id> ", "Test Message")
server.quit()
But while running this I get the below error
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "smtp_office_365.py", line 12, in <module>
server.login("<outlook_email_id>","<outlook_pass>")
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/smtplib.py", line 734, in login
raise last_exception
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/smtplib.py", line 723, in login
(code, resp) = self.auth(
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/smtplib.py", line 646, in auth
raise SMTPAuthenticationError(code, resp)
smtplib.SMTPAuthenticationError: (535, b'5.7.3 Authentication unsuccessful [MN2PR15CA0001.namprd15.prod.outlook.com]')
I am able to login into web outlook account using these credentials. Hence to check further I connected with my Admin team and they said that Basic Authentication is disabled for this account and can't be enabled in any case. They suggested me to use modern Authentication method by using Microsoft Online Exchange.
On further exploration I found the below script to send the mail
from exchangelib import DELEGATE, IMPERSONATION, Account, Credentials, Configuration
credentials = Credentials('<outlook_mail_id>', '<outlook_password>')
account = Account('<outlook_mail_id>', credentials=credentials, autodiscover=True)
for item in account.inbox.all().order_by('-datetime_received')[:100]:
print(item.subject, item.sender, item.datetime_received)
But I get the below error while running the script
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "test_exchange.py", line 5, in <module>
account = Account('<outlook_email_id>', credentials=credentials, autodiscover=True)
File "/home/ec2-user/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/exchangelib/account.py", line 116, in __init__
self.ad_response, self.protocol = discover(
File "/home/ec2-user/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/exchangelib/autodiscover/discovery.py", line 24, in discover
return Autodiscovery(
File "/home/ec2-user/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/exchangelib/autodiscover/discovery.py", line 123, in discover
ad_response = self._step_1(hostname=domain)
File "/home/ec2-user/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/exchangelib/autodiscover/discovery.py", line 433, in _step_1
return self._step_2(hostname=hostname)
File "/home/ec2-user/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/exchangelib/autodiscover/discovery.py", line 451, in _step_2
return self._step_3(hostname=hostname)
File "/home/ec2-user/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/exchangelib/autodiscover/discovery.py", line 483, in _step_3
return self._step_4(hostname=hostname)
File "/home/ec2-user/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/exchangelib/autodiscover/discovery.py", line 514, in _step_4
return self._step_6()
File "/home/ec2-user/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/exchangelib/autodiscover/discovery.py", line 572, in _step_6
raise AutoDiscoverFailed(
exchangelib.errors.AutoDiscoverFailed: All steps in the autodiscover protocol failed for email '<outlook_email_id>'. If you think this is an error, consider doing an official test at https://testconnectivity.microsoft.com
Please let me know if more details are required. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
