The original poster's links are dead. Without a reproducible problem with a current release, there is nothing we can do. Anyone who can provide such and will respond to requests for more information can reopen.

Note:
On Win 7 with 3.2, 3.3, current example exits on line
    server = smtplib.SMTP('localhost')
with
socket.error: [Errno 10061] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it