I had the same problem with django-allauth==0.32.0 and Django==1.11.1. Translations that are shipped with allauth are simply outdated or incomplete. In my project, for example, an email with a link to reset the password was always in English (in default language LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en') although the user set the language to Czech.
In .po file for Czech translations: https://github.com/pennersr/django-allauth/blob/master/allauth/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/django.po#L408 is this e-mail translation marked as fuzzy – so translations are not used. The same applies to other languages I've checked (de, es...).
The reason is explained in this comment from the author of allauth:
The allauth templates are merely meant as a starting point, something
to get you going quickly. Hence, I do not treat issues in the
translations as blocking for release, which can result in translations
getting left behind. Feel free to submit pull requests to fill in the
gaps.
Source: https://github.com/pennersr/django-allauth/issues/1113#issuecomment-141189606
I think there are two ways to solve this issue:
- Fix/update translations on https://www.transifex.com/django-allauth/django-allauth/, submit pull request on Github and wait for a new release.
- My recommendation: copy all templates from
allauth to your project, make your own *.po files and ignore all default translations/templates. Do not forget that e-mail templates are in *.txt so you must call makemessages this way: python manage.py makemessages ... --extension html,txt,py.
