How to send email via Django?

I use Gmail as my SMTP server for Django. Much easier than dealing with postfix or whatever other server. I'm not in the business of managing email servers.

In settings.py:

EMAIL_USE_TLS = TrueEMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'EMAIL_PORT = 587EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'me@gmail.com'EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'password'

NOTE: In 2016 Gmail is not allowing this anymore by default. You can either use an external service like Sendgrid, or you can follow this tutorial from Google to reduce security but allow this option: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6010255

Send the email to a real SMTP server. If you don't want to set up your own then you can find companies that will run one for you, such as Google themselves.

1. Create a project: django-admin.py startproject gmail

2. Edit settings.py with code below:

   EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'EMAIL_USE_TLS = TrueEMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'youremail@gmail.com'EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'email_password'EMAIL_PORT = 587

3. Run interactive mode: python manage.py shell

4. Import the EmailMessage module:

   from django.core.mail import EmailMessage

5. Send the email:

   email = EmailMessage('Subject', 'Body', to=['your@email.com'])email.send()

For more informations, check send_mail and EmailMessage features in documents.

UPDATE for Gmail

Also if you have problems sending email via gmail remember to check this guides from google.

In your Google account settings, go to Security > Account permissions > Access for less secure apps and enable this option.

Also create an App specific password for your gmail after you've turned on 2-step-verification for it.

Then you should use app specific password in settings. So change the following line:

    EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'your_email_app_specific_password'

Also if you're interested to send HTML email, check this out.