SMTP_SSL error in python 2.3

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On 2016-07-28 19:29, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 10:14 PM, Mushirahmed Shaikh <imushir at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear All,
>> I am sending email using smtplib.SMTP_SSL method in python2.3.
>> But it gives the error i.e Attribute error for SMTP_SSL.
>> Please help me to call SMTP_SSL method in python2.3.
>> I dont want to update the python version.
>>
>
> At this point, the only place where you can get any sort of guaranteed
> Python 2.3 support is Red Hat. Do you have a Red Hat license? Can you
> contact them for assistance? Unless you're running RHEL, I would
> *strongly* recommend upgrading to Python 2.7 or 3.5, which are still
> well supported by Python.org itself.
>
There's an answer here that might be relevant:

Sending mail with SSL with Python 2.3
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7926565/sending-mail-with-ssl-with-python-2-3