Email in Django

How to Send Email in Django – ProgramSpeaker

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Here we’ll walk through how to send emails using Django. In most customer-driven web applications, there may be a need to send an email. Follow this tutorial only after setup your project. And although you can refer to the Django-documentation to knowing more about sending emails in Django.

Step 1: Update the settings.py file

EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_HOST_USER = "sender's email-id"
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = "app password associated with above email-id"

In the above code,

  • “EMAIL_BACKEND” is the backend of our Django project that will use to connect with the SMTP server.
  • “EMAIL_HOST” settings refer to the SMTP server domain you will be using. This fully depends on your mail provider. Here we have some common providers and their SMTP server hosts.
Email ProviderSMTP Server Host
Gmailsmtp.gmail.com
Outlook/Hotmailsmtp-mail.outlook.com
Yahoosmtp.mail.yahoo.com
  • “EMAIL_USE_TLS” is a security protocol used across the web to encrypt the communication between web apps(Django) and servers(SMTP server). TLS – Transport Layer Security
  • “EMAIL_PORT” this setting must be set to 587 because it is the default port for most SMTP servers.
  • “EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD” is the app password for the email id. To configure the app password please go through the link create-app-password. It includes;
    1. Login to Gmail
    2. Go to myaccount.google.com
    3. Enable 2-factor authentication(as it’s required to get an app password)
    4. Go to the security section and scroll down to the signing into google section
    5. Click on App password and generate(Before leaving take a copy of the password)
  • “EMAIL_HOST_USER” is the sender’s email id

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Step 2: Update the views.py file

Now we can move to the views.py file. At the top add the following lines of code

from django.conf import settings 
from django.core.mail import send_mail

Next, paste the below code on your function where ever you want to send an email.

subject = 'Welcome to ProgramSpeaker' 
message = f'Hi user, thank you for going with programspeaker.' 
email_from = settings.EMAIL_HOST_USER 
recipient_list = ['recipient_email@gmail.com', ] 
send_mail( subject, message, email_from, recipient_list )

Here;
subject refers to the email subject/title
message refers to the content/body of the email
email_from is the sender’s details. That taken from EMAIL_HOST_USER in the settings.py file
recipient_list is the list of email recipients
send_mail is the inbuilt Django function to send mails

Now you can run your Django application along with the email function. Then the user will receive mail from the email account you mentioned.

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