socket.gaierror: [Errno 11001] getaddrinfo failed

Question

I have tried to attached a file to the mail using python. Code:

import smtplib
from email.MIMEMultipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.MIMEText import MIME         


        

Answer 1

There seems to be a bug in urllib3 version 1.25.9 package. This produced "socket.gaierror: [Errno 11001] getaddrinfo failed" error for me (working from behind an authenticated proxy server). Downgrading to urllib3 version 1.25.8 solved the problem.

Answer 2

The below answer may be quite irrelevant to the question. But,some users may have a different scenario.

If a server can be reached only through VPN and if we try to reach it with VPN disconnected, this error : "gaierror: [Errno 11001] getaddrinfo failed" crops up.

Connect to VPN and then executing the code should work good.