STARTTLS extension not supported by server - Getting this error when trying to send an email through Django and a private email address

Question

I registered a domain and a private email using namecheap.com. I am trying to send an email from this private email. However, I get the error in the title.

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Answer 1

Not sure if you have solved the problem yet. I also recently try the 2-month free private email package from NameCheap. Here is my code and it works for me as of Jan 2018:

import smtplib
from email.message import EmailMessage

fromaddr = 'account@yourdomain.com'
toaddrs  = "recipient@somedomain.com"
SMTPServer = 'mail.privateemail.com'
port = 465 #587
login = "account@yourdomain.com"
password = "password"

msg = EmailMessage()
msgtxt = "http://www.google.com"+"\n\n"+"This is a test."
msg.set_content(msgtxt)
msg['Subject'] = "Test message"
msg['From'] = fromaddr
msg['To'] = toaddrs

server = smtplib.SMTP_SSL(SMTPServer, port) #use smtplib.SMTP() if port is 587
#server.starttls()
server.login(login, password)
server.send_message(msg)
server.quit()

Hope this help!

PS. You can also use port 587, but you have to use smtplib.SMTP() instead of smtplib.SMTP_SSL(), and also have to un-comment the server.starttls() line.