Send emails from Django using Gmail SMTP
Add this configurations in your settings.py
This configurations is if you work with smtp.gmail.com, other smtp is similiar with configurations.
- Unlock Captha: https://accounts.google.com/DisplayUnlockCaptcha
- Change to active: https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_HOST_USER = '[email protected]'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'your_password'
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = EMAIL_HOST_USER
EMAIL_FROM = EMAIL_HOST_USER
EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX = '[Project] '
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
# MANAGERS
ADMINS = [('Website Admin', '[email protected]')]
MANAGERS = ADMINS + [('Website Manager', '[email protected]')]
Sending email is as easy as creating EmailMessage object and calling send method on it.
from django.conf import settings
from django.core.mail import EmailMessage
subject = 'Internal system message'
body = "This is test email."
EmailMessage(subject=subject, body=body, to=[x[1] for x in settings.MANAGERS]).send()
But what if you want to pretend sending emails?
Change EMAIL_BACKEND setting to console.
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.console.EmailBackend'