# My email program does not work

**URL:** https://forum.codewithmosh.com/t/my-email-program-does-not-work/18120
**Category:** Python
**Created:** [February 7, 2023, 8:30am UTC](https://forum.codewithmosh.com/t/my-email-program-does-not-work/18120 "2023-02-07T08:30:06Z")
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### Author: ![inquisitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/439d5e/32.png) [@inquisitive](https://forum.codewithmosh.com/u/inquisitive)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2023, 8:30am UTC](https://forum.codewithmosh.com/t/my-email-program-does-not-work/18120/1 "2023-02-07T08:30:06Z")

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I have applied the program for sending email. The program is as follows

```auto
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
from email.mime.image import MIMEImage
from pathlib import Path
import smtplib

message = MIMEMultipart()
message["from"] = "Sarmad Alsaadi"
message["to"] = "testpythonmail54@gmail.com"
message["subject"] = "This is a test"
message.attach(MIMEText("Body", "plain"))
with smtplib.SMTP(host="smtp.gmail.com", port=587) as smtp:
    smtp.ehlo()
    smtp.starttls()
    smtp.login("testpythonmail54@gmail.com", "acrobat12345")
    smtp.send_message(message)
    print("Sent........")

```

I am getting this error when I execute the program.

File “e:\Tutorials\Mosh\mastery\_course\sending\_emails.py”, line 16, in   
smtp.login(“[testpythonmail54@gmail.com](mailto:testpythonmail54@gmail.com)”, “acrobat12345”)  
File “C:\Program Files\Python311\Lib\smtplib.py”, line 750, in login  
raise last\_exception  
File “C:\Program Files\Python311\Lib\smtplib.py”, line 739, in login  
(code, resp) = self.auth(  
^^^^^^^^^^  
File “C:\Program Files\Python311\Lib\smtplib.py”, line 662, in auth  
raise SMTPAuthenticationError(code, resp)  
smtplib.SMTPAuthenticationError: (535, b’5.7.8 Username and Password not accepted. Learn more at\n5.7.8 [Check Gmail through other email platforms - Gmail Help](https://support.google.com/mail/?p=BadCredentials) s7-20020adfeb07000000b002bff1de8d4bsm11043112wrn.49 - gsmtp’)

I would so much appreciate it if someone could kindly extend me a helping hand

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### Author: ![Zeus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zeus](https://forum.codewithmosh.com/u/Zeus)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2024, 8:03am UTC](https://forum.codewithmosh.com/t/my-email-program-does-not-work/18120/2 "2024-06-18T08:03:46Z")

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Google discontinued it because SMTP is considered less secure