Amazon SES SMTP with Django
Thanks everyone for the recommendations but I finally found a much simpler solution that would allow me to use Django's built-in mail classes so I can still get my admin error email reports etc.
Thanks to this little beauty I was able to use SES SMTP without any problems:
https://github.com/bancek/django-smtp-ssl
Download and install (python setup.py install)
Then just change your settings to use this new email backend:
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django_smtp_ssl.SSLEmailBackend'The rest of the settings are as per normal:
EMAIL_HOST = 'email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com'EMAIL_PORT = 465EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'my_smtp_username'EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'my_smtp_password'EMAIL_USE_TLS = TrueNice.
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2019 Update: Django 2.2.1
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'EMAIL_HOST = 'email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com'EMAIL_PORT = 587EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'my_smtp_username'EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'my_smtp_password'EMAIL_USE_TLS = TrueNo library needed.
Credits : https://stackoverflow.com/a/32476190/5647272
Reference : https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/topics/email/
Since Django 1.7, you can send email with SSL natively without third party library.
EMAIL_USE_SSL = True