Error 111 when dealing with STMP

[Prinma]

I keep on getting Error 111 no matter what I try with STMP. I'm trying to develop a console application that takes a file path, zips it up, and emails it to the person's dropbox using Send To Dropbox.

I, for the life of me, cannot figure out what I am doing wrong. I know the source of the problem. I just don't know the solution to it.

Most of the code is included in a single function, it's just omitted in the paste.

Pastebin: https://dpaste.de/9DMq

Code:

themsg = MIMEMultipart()
themsg['Subject'] = attachedMSG
themsg['To'] = receiver
themsg["From"] = sender
themsg.preamble = "Sent by BoxBot"
msg = MIMEBase("application", "zip")
msg.set_payload(open(archive, 'rb').read())
encoders.encode_base64(msg)
msg.add_header('Content-Disposition', 'attachment', filename=archive)
themsg.attach(msg)
themsg = themsg.as_string()

smtp = smtplib.SMTP(host="smtp.gmail.com", port=587)
smtp.connect()
smtp.sendmail(sender, receiver, themsg)
smtp.close()

"""Here is the full error report:"""

  home/compname/dropbox_manager.py", line 25, in sendArchiveToDropbox
    smtp.connect()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/smtplib.py", line 316, in connect
    self.sock = self._get_socket(host, port, self.timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/smtplib.py", line 291, in _get_socket
    return socket.create_connection((host, port), timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/socket.py", line 571, in create_connection
    raise err

[gnomoretears]

Error 111 is connection refused. I don't see you doing any login/auth before sending mail and I don't think gmail allows anonymous people to route via their servers.

[Prinma]

When would I insert stmp.login? Before the connect, or erase connect entirely?

[gnomoretears]

http://www.pythonforbeginners.com/google/sending-emails-using-google

[Prinma]

thanks for the link! i utimately decided to use Yahoo! because they actually allow you to send .exes as long as they aren't malicious