Pip Failed With Error Code 1 While Installing Pyzmail

I'm trying to send Gmail through python3. I can use the email and smptlib, but I wanted to try out pyzmail. However, when I try to install pyzmail, I get this: $ pip3 install pyzma

Solution 1:

The pyzmail packages seems to be inactive now as the last commit and the last release were made 4 years ago. It does not seem to be updated for Python 3.6+.

There was an issue posted on the package's github page with the same error as yours: https://github.com/aspineux/pyzmail/issues/15. Someone posted a patch as a workaround but the best solution is to use pyzmail36 instead:

Tagging @cfenollosa @GheloAce in case you're still using this library and are looking for a more maintainable way forward.

This repository unfortunately seems inactive, so I created a new package on PyPI that includes all the fixes to make pyzmail pip-installable on Python 3.6.

The name of the new package is pyzmail36. You can just update your requirements.txt file to list pyzmail36 instead of pyzmail and all of the rest of your code shouldn't need to change.

So just try with:

pip3 install pyzmail36

Solution 2:

There are several ways to install pyzmail such as:

1. Try to use " pip install pyzmail36" by installing Python 3.6 first on your device.
2. Try to update the setup-tools by typing "pip install setuptools==20.1.1" and then install pyzmail.
3. Try to search for easy_install on Python 3.x, I have found several links for that.

Good luck.