How to send email via Django

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In my settings py  I have the following    EMAIL BACKEND    django core mail backends smtp EmailBackend     Host for sending e-mail  EMAIL HOST    localhost     Port for sending e-mail  EMAIL PORT   1025    Optional SMTP authentication information for EMAIL HOST  EMAIL HOST USER      EMAIL HOST PASSWORD      EMAIL USE TLS   False   My email code   from django core mail import EmailMessage email   EmailMessage  Hello    World   to   user gmail com    email send     Of course  if I setup a debugging server via python -m smtpd -n -c DebuggingServer localhost 1025  I can see the email in my terminal   However  how do I actually send the email not to the debugging server but to user gmail com   After reading your answers  let me get something straight    Can t you use localhost simple ubuntu pc  to send e-mails  I thought in django 1 3 send mail   is somewhat deprecated and EmailMessage send   is used instead

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My site is hosted on Godaddy and I have a private email registered on the same  These are the settings which worked for me   In settings py   EMAIL HOST    mail domain com  EMAIL HOST USER    abc domain com  EMAIL HOST PASSWORD    abcdef  DEFAULT FROM EMAIL    abc domain com  SERVER EMAIL    abc domain com  EMAIL PORT   25 EMAIL USE TLS   False   In shell   from django core mail import EmailMessage email   EmailMessage  Subject    Body   to   def domain com    email send     Then I got  1  as the O P i e  Success  And I received the mail too       What is the meaning of domain com

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I use Gmail as my SMTP server for Django  Much easier than dealing with postfix or whatever other server  I m not in the business of managing email servers   In settings py   EMAIL USE TLS   True EMAIL HOST    smtp gmail com  EMAIL PORT   587 EMAIL HOST USER    me gmail com  EMAIL HOST PASSWORD    password    NOTE  In 2016 Gmail is not allowing this anymore by default  You can either use an external service like Sendgrid  or you can follow this tutorial from Google to reduce security but allow this option  https   support google com accounts answer 6010255

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For Django version 1 7  if above solutions dont work then try the following  in settings py add   For email EMAIL BACKEND    django core mail backends smtp EmailBackend   EMAIL USE TLS   True  EMAIL HOST    smtp gmail com   EMAIL HOST USER    sender gmail com    Must generate specific password for your app in  gmail settings  1  EMAIL HOST PASSWORD    app specific password   EMAIL PORT   587   This did the trick DEFAULT FROM EMAIL   EMAIL HOST USER   The last line did the trick for django 1 7

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You can use the Gmail service for the mail   Steps to use Gmail as an email service  Free  in Django   1  Create a dummy Google account for your contact  2  Add the following code in settings py at the bottom   EMAIL HOST    quot smtp gmail com quot      EMAIL PORT   587     EMAIL USE TLS   True     EMAIL HOST USER    quot yourdummy gmail com quot      EMAIL HOST PASSWORD    quot dummypassword quot           EMAIL BACKEND    django core mail backends smtp EmailBackend   3  Now in views py add    from django core mail import EmailMessage       now in your function add this code          messageContent   yourcontent     msg   EmailMessage heading  messageContent  settings EMAIL HOST USER  list of senders email       msg send    4  Enable these things first for the dummy Gmail account  a  Go to https   myaccount google com lesssecureapps and enable it  NOTE  First check that you enable this with sign in as your dummy account  b  Now go to https   accounts google com DisplayUnlockCaptcha and click continue  5  You are ready to use Gmail email services for your contact page   Bonus   If you want to send a mail with an HTML template in Django then use this code in views py  from django template loader import get template from django core mail import EmailMessage    add this code in function  ctx          subject   subjectin       userMsg   messagein        heading   Your heading  messageContent   get template  yourTemplate html   render ctx   sending value on HTML page through context msg   EmailMessage heading  messageContent  settings EMAIL HOST USER                      list of emails    msg content subtype    html  msg send

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For SendGrid - Django Specifically   SendGrid Django Docs here  Set these variables in  settings py  EMAIL HOST    smtp sendgrid net  EMAIL HOST USER    sendgrid username  EMAIL HOST PASSWORD    sendgrid password  EMAIL PORT   587 EMAIL USE TLS   True   in views py  from django core mail import send mail send mail  Subject here    Here is the message     from example com     to example com    fail silently False

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I had actually done this from Django a while back  Open up a legitimate GMail account  amp  enter the credentials here  Here s my code -   from email import Encoders from email MIMEBase import MIMEBase from email MIMEText import MIMEText from email MIMEMultipart import MIMEMultipart  def sendmail to  subject  text  attach     mtype  html        ok   True     gmail user   settings EMAIL HOST USER     gmail pwd    settings EMAIL HOST PASSWORD      msg   MIMEMultipart  alternative        msg  From        gmail user     msg  To          to     msg  Cc           you gmail com      msg  Subject     subject      msg attach MIMEText text  mtype        for a in attach          part   MIMEBase  application    octet-stream           part set payload open attach   rb   read            Encoders encode base64 part          part add header  Content-Disposition   attachment  filename   s     os path basename a           msg attach part       try          mailServer   smtplib SMTP  smtp gmail com   687          mailServer ehlo           mailServer starttls           mailServer ehlo           mailServer login gmail user  gmail pwd          mailServer sendmail gmail user   to msg  Cc     msg as string            mailServer close       except          ok   False     return ok

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Create a project  django-admin py startproject gmail Edit settings py with code below   EMAIL BACKEND    django core mail backends smtp EmailBackend  EMAIL USE TLS   True EMAIL HOST    smtp gmail com  EMAIL HOST USER    youremail gmail com  EMAIL HOST PASSWORD    email password  EMAIL PORT   587  Run interactive mode  python manage py shell Import the EmailMessage module   from django core mail import EmailMessage  Send the email   email   EmailMessage  Subject    Body   to   your email com    email send      For more informations  check send mail and EmailMessage features in documents   UPDATE for Gmail  Also if you have problems sending email via gmail remember to check this guides from google   In your Google account settings  go to  Security  gt  Account permissions  gt  Access for less secure apps and enable this option   Also create an App specific password for your gmail after you ve turned on 2-step-verification for it   Then you should use app specific password in settings  So change the following line       EMAIL HOST PASSWORD    your email app specific password    Also if you re interested to send HTML email  check this out

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Late  but   In addition to the DEFAULT FROM EMAIL fix others have mentioned  and allowing less-secure apps to access the account  I had to navigate to https   accounts google com DisplayUnlockCaptcha while signed in as the account in question to get Django to finally authenticate   I went to that URL through a SSH tunnel to the web server to make sure the IP address was the same  I m not totally sure if that s necessary but it can t hurt  You can do that like so  ssh -D 8080 -fN  lt username gt   lt host gt   then set your web browser to use localhost 8080 as a SOCKS proxy

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I found using SendGrid to be the easiest way to set up sending email with Django  Here s how it works    Create a SendGrid account  and verify your email  Add the following to your settings py   EMAIL HOST    smtp sendgrid net  EMAIL HOST USER     lt your sendgrid username gt   EMAIL HOST PASSWORD     lt your sendgrid password gt   EMAIL PORT   587 EMAIL USE TLS   True   And you re all set   To send email   from django core mail import send mail send mail   lt Your subject gt      lt Your message gt     from example com     to example com      If you want Django to email you whenever there s a 500 internal server error  add the following to your settings py   DEFAULT FROM EMAIL    your email example com  ADMINS       lt Your name gt     your email example com      Sending email with SendGrid is free up to 12k emails per month

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You could use  Test Mail Server Tool  to test email sending on your machine or localhost  Google and Download  Test Mail Server Tool  and set it up   Then in your settings py   EMAIL BACKEND   django core mail backends smtp EmailBackend  EMAIL HOST    localhost  EMAIL PORT   25   From shell   from django core mail import send mail send mail  subject   message   sender email    receipient email       fail silently False

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Send the email to a real SMTP server  If you don t want to set up your own then you can find companies that will run one for you  such as Google themselves

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You need to use smtp as backend in settings py  EMAIL BACKEND    django core mail backends smtp EmailBackend    If you use backend as console  you will receive output in console  EMAIL BACKEND    django core mail backends console EmailBackend    And also below settings in addition  EMAIL USE TLS   True EMAIL HOST    smtp gmail com  EMAIL PORT   587 EMAIL HOST USER    urusername gmail com  EMAIL HOST PASSWORD    password    If you are using gmail for this  setup 2-step verification and Application specific password and copy and paste that password in above EMAIL HOST PASSWORD value

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