smtplib.SMTP throw : 'Socket error: 10053 software causedconnection abort'

[aberry]

I am using 'smtplib' module to send an email but getting exception...

smtplib.SMTP(<nailservernam> throw error :

here is trace back snippet :-

" smtp = smtplib.SMTP(self.server)
File "D:\Python24\lib\smtplib.py", line 244, in __init__
(code, msg) = self.connect(host, port)
File "D:\Python24\lib\smtplib.py", line 306, in connect
raise socket.error, msg
socket.error: (10053, 'Software caused connection abort')"

thanks in adv,
aberry