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When the view that sends the email is used nothing happens, i then entered send_mail(...) into the python shell and it returned 1 but i didn't receive any emails.

This is my settings.py

EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'senderaddress@gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'Password1234!'
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True

This is the view:

def send_email(request):
    send_mail('Request Callback', 'Here is the message.', 'senderaddress@gmail.com',
        ['recipientaddress@gmail.com'], fail_silently=False)
    return HttpResponseRedirect('/')
CJ4
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    Did you check your SPAM inbox ? Did you create the SPF record ? http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=33786 – jpic Apr 30 '12 at 14:18

2 Answers2

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Adjust your settings thus:

DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = 'workorbit@gmail.com'
SERVER_EMAIL = 'workorbit@gmail.com'
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'workorbit@gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'P@ssw0rd5'

Adjust your code:

from django.core.mail import EmailMessage

def send_email(request):
    msg = EmailMessage('Request Callback',
                       'Here is the message.', to=['charl@byteorbit.com'])
    msg.send()
    return HttpResponseRedirect('/')
Burhan Khalid
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2

Google now provides a method to generate a password that you can use for applications that need to relay mail. its different from the password that you would use to login through webmail.

Sign in to Google and start using App Passwords. This allows you to use a 16 digit password to access google services including ability to send out email. Refer below

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833?hl=en

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