[Answered ]-How to add email and name fields into SendMail upon user creation in Django

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You can access the fields from the instance saved:

@receiver(post_save, sender=User)
def send_new_user_data_email(sender, instance, created, **kwargs):
    if created:
        username = instance.username
    
        subject = 'Subject line'
        message = f'User: {instance.username}\nPassword: ... \nblablabla'
    
        send_mail(
            subject,
            message,
            None,
            [instance.email],
            fail_silently=False,
        )

In fact you do not need to save the instance first, you can send the email before saving it to the database:

from django.db.models.signals import pre_save

@receiver(pre_save, sender=User)
def send_new_user_data_email(sender, instance, created, **kwargs):
    # …
    pass

The email field of Django’s builtin user model is not required (it has blank=True), so it is possible that the user is created without an email address. If you want to alter that, you should make a slight modification to the form used by the ModelAdmin for that User model.

👤willeM_ Van Onsem

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