sending mail error python

Question

i get the following error when trying a script thaat sends mail

    import urllib.request
    import re
    import smtplib
    from email.mime.text import MIMEText
    from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
    page=urllib.request.urlopen("http://www.crummy.com/")
    soup=BeautifulSoup(page)
    v=soup.findAll('a',href=re.compile('http://www.crummy.com/2012/07/24/0'))
    for link in v:

      w=link.get('href')


    server = smtplib.SMTP( "smtp.gmail.com", 587 )
    server.starttls()
    server.login( 'xxxxxxxxxxx', 'xxxxxxx' )
    server.sendmail( 'xxxxxxxxx', 'xxxxxxxxx', "bonus question is up" )

Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Python32\bonus", line 14,
in server = smtplib.SMTP( "smtp.gmail.com", 587 ) File
"C:\Python32\lib\smtplib.py", line 259, in init File "C:\Python32\lib\smtplib.py", line 319, in connect self.sock = self._get_socket(host, port, self.timeout) File "C:\Python32 \lib\smtplib.py", line 294, in _get_socket return socket.create_connection((host, port), timeout) File "C:\Python32\lib\socket.py", line 386, in create_connection for res in getaddrinfo(host, port, 0, SOCK_STREAM): socket.gaierror: [Errno 11004] getaddrinfo failed plse advice on the best way to go round it

Tony The Lion · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-19 12:55:27Z

The getaddrinfo function has this purpose:

The getaddrinfo function provides protocol-independent translation from an ANSI host name to an address.

If it fails it means that it cannot translate your given hostname to it's respective address. It's essentially doing a DNS query.

Your error number returned "11004" by getaddrinfo has this message associated with it:

Valid name, no data record of requested type. The requested name is valid and was found in the database, but it does not have the correct associated data being resolved for. The usual example for this is a host name-to-address translation attempt (using gethostbyname or WSAAsyncGetHostByName) which uses the DNS (Domain Name Server). An MX record is returned but no A record—indicating the host itself exists, but is not directly reachable.

It seems the name you're looking up has no correct data associated with it.

Are you sure your URL's are correct?

Links:

getaddrinfo: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms738520(v=vs.85).aspx

WinSock Error Codes: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms740668(v=vs.85).aspx

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