Connection Error SMTP python

You have an ehlo after close. That seems unlikely to ever succeed. Also, quit does close so you can probably just get rid of the ehlo and close calls near the end

Try using SMTP's empty constructor, then call connect(host, port):

    server = smtplib.SMTP()
    server.connect('smtp.gmail.com', '587')
    server.ehlo()
    server.starttls()
    server.login(username, password)

all sorted took a few idea and tried the code below

msg = MIMEText ('%s - %s' % (msg.text, msg.channel))
server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com')
server.starttls()
server.login('user','pass')
msg['Subject'] = "msg.channel"
msg['From'] = ('from')
msg['To'] = ('to')
server.sendmail(msg.get('From'),msg["To"],msg.as_string())
server.quit()

So i removed ehlo(), close() and port number. now i have to workout how to change the subject to msg.channel so it changes each time.

thanks all