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Buck
Buck

Reputation: 771

How to send email as alias using Django

Background:

I have a site I'm building using Django and I've encountered the following conundrum. I have a backend email that we will call [email protected]. Now I also have a domain email that forwards directly to [email protected] which is called [email protected].

Currently I have my Django Email setting set up as follows:

EMAIL_HOST_USER="[email protected]"
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD="password"

This works fine, but I want to have the email sent out from '[email protected]'.

Note:

Including the Python community as a whole as maybe the issue can be resolved outside of Django mail wrapper functions.

Question:

How can I set up this redirection? Meaning, how can I send out emails under the alias '[email protected]' when my true email configured in the Django backend is [email protected] ?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2748

Answers (2)

Aks
Aks

Reputation: 1232

Taken from django documentation In two lines:

from django.core.mail import send_mail

send_mail('Subject here', 'Here is the message.', '[email protected]',
    ['[email protected]'], fail_silently=False)

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

Upvotes: 0

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams

Reputation: 799062

settings.EMAIL_HOST_USER is only used to authenticate with the SMTP server. The third argument of django.core.mail.send_mail() is the From: address.

Upvotes: 9

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