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sanjay G D
sanjay G D

Reputation: 89

Couldn't able to import environment variable for django settings.py for sending email in linux ubuntu system

When I specify EMAIL_HOST_USER and EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD directly email send properly but if try to get using os.environ it is throwing following error (530, b'5.7.0 Authentication Required. Learn more at\n5.7.0 https://support.google.com/mail/?p=WantAuthError l26sm20714449pgn.46 - gsmtp', 'webmaster@localhost'). I have tried to add variables in .bashrc and .bash_profile but it didn't worked. What I have tried shown below. can anyone help me this please.

settings.py

variables shown below.

EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
# EMAIL_HOST_USER = '[email protected]'
# EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = '123456789'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = os.environ.get('EMAIL_HOST_USER')
print('variable :',os.environ.get('EMAIL_HOST_USER'))
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = os.environ.get('EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD')

.bashrc

This file is in the same directory where settings.py exist.

import os
export EMAIL_HOST_USER = '[email protected]'
export EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = '9538913650'

main

below lines I have tried in terminal both in global and vertual envirnment.

[email protected]
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD=123456789

using python comand

code shown below.

import os
os.environ.set('EMAIL_HOST_USER') = '[email protected]'
os.environ.set('EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD') = 12345678

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1332

Answers (3)

Kevinv
Kevinv

Reputation: 9

Just wasted another 2 hours... you only need to restart your computer and it will work with your original code

Upvotes: 0

Alasdair
Alasdair

Reputation: 308939

Firstly, don't use os.environ.get('...') - it silently fails when the environment variable is missing. Use os.environ['...'] instead.

EMAIL_HOST_USER = os.environ['EMAIL_HOST_USER']
print('variable :',os.environ['EMAIL_HOST_USER'])
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = os.environ['EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD']

Next, the .bashrc or .bash_profile will only work if you are running Django from a shell that has sourced those files. Remove the import os, it is not Python.

Next, you still need the export in your shell if you set the variables before running Django.

export [email protected]
export EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD=123456789

If you want to set the environment variables in Python, then treat os.environ as a dict instead of trying to call .set(...).

import os
os.environ['EMAIL_HOST_USER'] = '[email protected]'
os.environ['EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD'] = 12345678

Finally, even if this works on your local box, it might stop working when you deploy on a server with a different IP address. Every week I see questions on Stack Overflow where users are struggling to send emails from Django using gmail. I usually suggest that they think about using a different email provider.

Upvotes: 1

Daniel
Daniel

Reputation: 3527

Have you tried the decouple library? Here is a good example: https://simpleisbetterthancomplex.com/2015/11/26/package-of-the-week-python-decouple.html

Usage:

# settings.py
from decouple import config

EMAIL_HOST_USER = config('EMAIL_HOST_USER')

Then create a .env file (and add it to .gitignore if needed):

# .env (save in the same folder as manage.py)
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'my_email@some_url.some_extension'

Upvotes: 0

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