send_email not working in django?

Question

I wrote a application to send a mail through django

models.py

from django.db import models

from django import forms

class EmailForm(forms.Form):

      firstname = forms.CharField(max_length=255)

      lastname = forms.CharField(max_length=255)

      email = forms.EmailField()

      subject = forms.CharField(max_length=255)

      botcheck = forms.CharField(max_length=5)

      message = forms.CharField()

views.py

from django.views.generic.base import TemplateView

from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect

from django.core.mail import send_mail, BadHeaderError

from models import EmailForm

from django.shortcuts import render

def sendmail(request):

    if request.method == 'POST':
      form = EmailForm(request.POST)
      if form.is_valid():
        firstname = form.cleaned_data['firstname']
        lastname = form.cleaned_data['lastname']
        email = form.cleaned_data['email']
        subject = form.cleaned_data['subject']
        botcheck = form.cleaned_data['botcheck'].lower()
        message = form.cleaned_data['message']
        if botcheck == 'yes':
         try:
            fullemail = firstname + " " + lastname + " " + "<" + email + ">"
            send_mail(subject, message, email, ['myemail@gmail.com'], fail_silently=False)
            return HttpResponseRedirect('/email/thankyou/')
         except:
            return HttpResponseRedirect('/email/')
        else:
          return HttpResponseRedirect('/email/')
    else:
        return HttpResponseRedirect('/email/')

when the

EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.console.EmailBackend'

it displaying in the console.

but when the

EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'

it not sending the email to the specified user. my settings.py file

EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.console.EmailBackend'

EMAIL_USE_TLS   = True
EMAIL_HOST      =  'localhost'

EMAIL_PORT      = '8000'

how I can send the email?

Consider trying to produce [Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable example](http://stackoverflow.com/help/mcve). — Sait, Jun 29 '15 at 06:51
thank you.i will try.if i dnt specify clearly how others understand? — susmitha, Jun 29 '15 at 06:53
@susmitha if you didn't specified the smtp server at all then how the email will reach inbox ? — Raja Simon, Jun 29 '15 at 06:56
See [this](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6367014/how-to-send-email-via-django). — doru, Jun 29 '15 at 07:32
i have specified the smtp.gmail.com. i also tried it in that way but not worked. — susmitha, Jun 29 '15 at 07:33
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' EMAIL_USE_TLS = True EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com' EMAIL_PORT = 587 EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'myemail@gmail.com' EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'password' — susmitha, Jun 29 '15 at 07:34
possible duplicate of [Django SMTPAuthenticationError](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26697565/django-smtpauthenticationerror) — rnevius, Jun 29 '15 at 07:46
Never, ever, ever use a blank except. Something is going wrong here but that is preventing you from seeing what. Remove that whole try/except and let Django trek you what is going wrong. — Daniel Roseman, Jun 29 '15 at 08:24

cutteeth · Answer 1 · 2015-06-29T10:21:41.970

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You have specified your EMAIL HOST as localhost change it to a reliable email host like gmail. Your settings.py can have the below given settings to send emails using gmail smtp server. You have to change the port too.

EMAIL_USE_TLS = True 
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'username@gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'password'

If issues persists you have to allow less secure apps to access your gmail account. This is a recent change that gmail made to their account access policies. By default only a qualified domain can send emails using gmail authentication (OAUTH2) mechanism. To allow less secure apps to access your gmail account you have to sign in to google developer console.

edited Jun 29 '15 at 10:21

answered Jun 29 '15 at 07:36

cutteeth

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SMTPAuthenticationError – susmitha Jun 29 '15 at 07:42
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Goto gmail.com and verify that you can login to gmail using credentials provided in settings.py. Also try to explain question in a fair way with error trace while posting in SO. – cutteeth Jun 29 '15 at 07:45
i can login to my account.that only i have mentioned there. – susmitha Jun 29 '15 at 08:51
I have edited above answer. You can refer to that and enable gmail for less secure apps. – cutteeth Jun 29 '15 at 11:22
i tried that also by allowing less secure apps in google account settings.but still not working.thank you – susmitha Jun 29 '15 at 11:34

send_email not working in django?

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