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susmitha
susmitha

Reputation: 25

send_email not working in django?

I wrote a application to send a mail through django

models.py

from django.db import models

from django import forms

class EmailForm(forms.Form):

      firstname = forms.CharField(max_length=255)

      lastname = forms.CharField(max_length=255)

      email = forms.EmailField()

      subject = forms.CharField(max_length=255)

      botcheck = forms.CharField(max_length=5)

      message = forms.CharField()

views.py

from django.views.generic.base import TemplateView

from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect

from django.core.mail import send_mail, BadHeaderError

from models import EmailForm

from django.shortcuts import render

def sendmail(request):

    if request.method == 'POST':
      form = EmailForm(request.POST)
      if form.is_valid():
        firstname = form.cleaned_data['firstname']
        lastname = form.cleaned_data['lastname']
        email = form.cleaned_data['email']
        subject = form.cleaned_data['subject']
        botcheck = form.cleaned_data['botcheck'].lower()
        message = form.cleaned_data['message']
        if botcheck == 'yes':
         try:
            fullemail = firstname + " " + lastname + " " + "<" + email + ">"
            send_mail(subject, message, email, ['[email protected]'], fail_silently=False)
            return HttpResponseRedirect('/email/thankyou/')
         except:
            return HttpResponseRedirect('/email/')
        else:
          return HttpResponseRedirect('/email/')
    else:
        return HttpResponseRedirect('/email/')

when the

EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.console.EmailBackend'

it displaying in the console.

but when the

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

it not sending the email to the specified user. my settings.py file

EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.console.EmailBackend'

EMAIL_USE_TLS   = True
EMAIL_HOST      =  'localhost'

EMAIL_PORT      = '8000'

how I can send the email?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1899

Answers (1)

cutteeth
cutteeth

Reputation: 2213

You have specified your EMAIL HOST as localhost change it to a reliable email host like gmail. Your settings.py can have the below given settings to send emails using gmail smtp server. You have to change the port too.

EMAIL_USE_TLS = True 
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_HOST_USER = '[email protected]'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'password'

If issues persists you have to allow less secure apps to access your gmail account. This is a recent change that gmail made to their account access policies. By default only a qualified domain can send emails using gmail authentication (OAUTH2) mechanism. To allow less secure apps to access your gmail account you have to sign in to google developer console.

Upvotes: 4

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