[Django]-Django sending email

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Are you trying to use a gmail account? Maybe try this then:

EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'your-username@gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'your-password'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True

Then try test (django < 1.4) by

python manage.py shell
>>> from django.core.mail import send_mail
>>> send_mail('test email', 'hello world', to=['test@email.com'])

And if you use django 1.4 use this:

python manage.py shell
>>> from django.core.mail import send_mail
>>> send_mail('test email', 'hello world', 'your@email.com', ['test@email.com'])

If you’re not using a gmail account and still getting problems then just try add the EMAIL_HOST_USER and EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD to what you have.
If you still have issues maybe your network is blocking you. Firewalls on your OS or router.

Thanks to knite for the updated syntax. Throw him a +1 and thanks to pranavk for letting me know about the syntax change in django 1.4

👤darren

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First Create an Application specific password

  1. Visit your Google Account security page. And Click 2-step verification:
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  1. Click App passwords at Google Account security page:
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  1. Create an App, select Mail and give a name:
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  1. Note down the App Password:
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Then add the appropriate values to settings.py:

EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'your-username@gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'Application spectific password(for eg: smbumqjiurmqrywn)'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True

You can use the shell to test it:

python manage.py shell
>>> from django.core.mail import send_mail
>>> send_mail('Test', 'This is a test', 'your@email.com', ['toemail@email.com'],
     fail_silently=False)
👤suhailvs

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@mongoose_za has a great answer, but the syntax is a bit different in Django 1.4+.

Instead of:

send_mail('test email', 'hello world', to=['test@email.com'])

use

send_mail('test email', 'hello world', 'your@email.com', ['test@email.com'])

The first four arguments are required: subject, message, from_email, and recipient_list.

👤knite

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  1. Enable pop3 in gmail settings.
  2. create application specific password for this django application. (http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=185833)
👤ameya1984

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I would avoid using GMail. It will work for a few emails, but after that, you may find that all your emails are being rejected or spam-canned. I used Amazon’s “SES” service with Django-SES to solve this.

👤Rich Jones

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In settings.py, Use smtp as backend and not console

EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
👤user966588

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put the following minimal settings in the settings.py or local_settings.py file on your server. 

EMAIL_HOST = 'localhost'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True

instead of using smtp.gmail.com which imposes lot many limitations, you can have your own mail server.

you can do it by installing your own mailserver:

sudo apt-get install sendmail
👤user993563

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First setup the email backend variables in settings.py file.

EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'your-username@gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'your-password'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True

Then, create an email object to send the mails.

from django.core import mail

connection = mail.get_connection() # Manually open the connection 
connection.open() # Construct an email message that uses the connection 
email = mail.EmailMessage( 'Hello', 'Body goes here', 'from@example.com', ['to1@example.com'], connection=connection, ) 
email.send() # Send the email
connection.close()
👤Praveen Kumar

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