[Answered ]-How to send email on form submission using django forms?

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You need to put these in your settings.py file. You can put the below settings anywhere in your settings.py file.

settings.py

...

EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'  # since you are using a gmail account
EMAIL_PORT = 587  # Gmail SMTP port for TLS
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True    
...

local_settings.py

EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'your_username@gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'your_gmail_password'

Then to send an email, you can use Django’s send_email().

from django.core.mail import send_mail

send_mail('My Subject', 'My message', 'from@example.com',
    ['to@example.com'], fail_silently=False)

Mail is then sent using the SMTP host and port specified in the EMAIL_HOST and EMAIL_PORT settings in your settings.py file. The EMAIL_HOST_USER and EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD settings, if set, are used to authenticate to the SMTP server, and the EMAIL_USE_TLS settings control whether a secure connection is used.

Signature of send_email():

send_mail(subject, message, from_email, recipient_list,
fail_silently=False, auth_user=None, auth_password=None,
connection=None, html_message=None)

Note: You can put your gmail account information in a local_settings.py and add this local_settings to git-ignore. Then include this local_settings in your settings.py. This way only you would be able to see your local_settings.

👤Rahul Gupta

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