I'm trying to send an email using flask_email and gmail. when I run it locally on my laptop its working, but when i create the docker image and run it on aws i get the error in the image
# Configuration for Flask-Mail
app.config["MAIL_SERVER"] = "smtp.gmail.com"
app.config["MAIL_PORT"] = 465
app.config["MAIL_USE_TLS"] = False
app.config["MAIL_USE_SSL"] = True
app.config["MAIL_USERNAME"] = username
app.config["MAIL_PASSWORD"] = password
app.config["MAIL_DEBUG"] = True
The Error:
ERROR:app:Exception on /api/mail/sendMail [POST]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/app/routes/mail_routes.py", line 49, in send_email
mail.send(msg)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/flask_mail.py", line 491, in send
with self.connect() as connection:
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/flask_mail.py", line 144, in __enter__
self.host = self.configure_host()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/flask_mail.py", line 156, in configure_host
host = smtplib.SMTP_SSL(self.mail.server, self.mail.port)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/smtplib.py", line 1048, in __init__
SMTP.__init__(self, host, port, local_hostname, timeout,
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/smtplib.py", line 255, in __init__
(code, msg) = self.connect(host, port)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/smtplib.py", line 339, in connect
self.sock = self._get_socket(host, port, self.timeout)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/smtplib.py", line 1054, in _get_socket
new_socket = socket.create_connection((host, port), timeout,
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/socket.py", line 808, in create_connection
raise err
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/socket.py", line 796, in create_connection
sock.connect(sa)
OSError: [Errno 101] Network is unreachable i tried changing the ports connecting to the smtp server