Email Server Credentials Gmail I am trying to create Email S

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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

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BTW if I use the standard python package `MIMEText` with <http emtp gmail com|emtp gmail com> and 587 it works fine

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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 ```

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

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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 ```

YD · Answer

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 ```