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_*Email Server Credentials - Gmail*_

I am trying to create Email Server Credentials Block
I’ve created a Google App password

[Blocks] -&gt; [+] -&gt; [Email Server Credentials]
Added the App Password
my email as a user name
Smtp server : tried “<http://emtp.gmail.com|emtp.gmail.com>” and with none
Smtp type: tried “465", “587” and none

none of those work

does someone have a working example?
thanks

BTW, if I use the standard python package `MIMEText` with “<http://emtp.gmail.com|emtp.gmail.com>” and “587"
it works fine

with the Prefect Block I get the following error
```ssl.SSLCertVerificationError: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:1123)```

I also tried setting to set the `Smtp Port` to “587”, this did not help as well

The code I am using is:
```from prefect_email import EmailServerCredentials, email_send_message
from prefect import flow


@flow
def example_email_send_message_flow():
    email_credentials_block = EmailServerCredentials.load("my_block_name")

    subject = email_send_message(
        email_server_credentials=email_credentials_block,
        subject="Example Flow Notification",
        msg="This proves email_send_message works!",
        email_to="<mailto:some_email@gmail.com|some_email@gmail.com>",
    )
    return subject


example_email_send_message_flow()```

The email block does not appear to be functioning.
it looks like a simpler and a working solution is just to use python
```import smtplib
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart ```