[Fixed]-Django error : smtplib.SMTPDataError

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I believe in your settings.py you are going to need to add some email configuration, like this

EMAIL_FROM = 'youremail@gmail.com'
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'something@gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'password'
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True

Then you could create a view that calls the send_mail function. Something like this

def send_an_email(request):
    from django.core.mail import send_mail
    send_mail('Subject here', 'Here is the message.', 'from@example.com', [to@example.com'], fail_silently=False,)
    return render(request, '/email_sent.html')

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Of course you’ll need a url to call this view. So in your urls.py (I assume you have this already) have something like this

url(r'^send_my_mail/', 'Project_name.views.mail.send_an_email', name='mail')

And then visit the url to see if the email got sent properly.

👤Matt Cremeens

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