Error sending e-mail via SMTP server on App Engine development server

Question

I am trying to send Email using this sample code and these command-line options:

dev_appserver.py --smtp_host=smtp.gmail.com --smtp_port=25 --smtp_user=xxx@g         


        

Answer 1

For anyone looking up this answer in 2018 or later: this workaround is no longer needed. You can now use the command like the original poster wrote it:

dev_appserver.py --smtp_host=smtp.gmail.com --smtp_port=25 --smtp_user=xxx@gmail.com --smtp_password=yyy myapp