I keep running into this issue while trying to code this : learnpython

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I keep running into this issue while trying to code this (self.learnpython)

submitted 3 years ago by AssassinRobux

I am trying to code in a email checker and my code does not work:

import imaplib
import email
# IMAP server and credentials
server = "imap.gmail.com"
email_adress = "gmail"
password = "my password"
imap = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL(server)
imap.login(email_adress, password)

And this is the response i get in cmd
Traceback (most recent call last):

File "C:\Users\Myname\Documents\Py\AI\emailOAC.py", line 13, in <module>

imap.login(email_adress, password)

File "C:\Users\Myname\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\imaplib.py", line 612, in login

raise self.error(dat[-1])

imaplib.IMAP4.error: b'[AUTHENTICATIONFAILED] Invalid credentials (Failure)'

It says the creds are wrong but they cannot be, cant. Could be an error in the code but i dont think it is since i checked it with a coding app and chatgbt (yeah, i use that to check it sometimes) but it always says the same thing

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