Not able to send email - Django

Question

My settings.py:

EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.console.EmailBackend' 
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True 
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com' 
EMAIL_PORT = 587 
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'rakil@gmail.com' 
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = '*******' 
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = 'testing@testing.com

But a mail is not sent to the address, in the console the print.html is printing when I click on send_email, but it's not sending any email.

I am using Django 1.3.7 and Python 2.6.

I don't know the problem is with the version or some logic problem.

Have you turned on debugging? `DEBUG = True` in settings.py? Then, can u for example send email using your other local mail clients? Are you certain about your local smtp settings being fine? Are there any errors in the system mail or http logs? — JWL, Jun 11 '13 at 10:34
@nemesisfixx DEBUG = TRUE in settings.py,how to check the latter one — user2086641, Jun 11 '13 at 10:36
@user2086641 on which OS are u testing this? If it's a *nix box, try testing that u can actually send email using the `mail` command for example. Otherwise, another thing to check is to see whether the ajax request even hits the server... ;-/ — JWL, Jun 11 '13 at 10:41
@nemesisfixx Ajax is returning the success message,but mail not send — user2086641, Jun 11 '13 at 11:04

score 44 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 15 '21 at 05:50

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In settings.py

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

console.EmailBackend will print the mail in the console. So using

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

solved my problem. It is already documented here: Django docs: Email

edited Jul 15 '21 at 05:50

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This little change makes every natural way to proceed the good way to proceed. With everything right in except of this line, it worked always without error but the email wasn't sent. Now there are no errors and the email is sent (: . – Gerardo Reichl Oct 15 '19 at 12:12
Thank you. #Added this to exceed the min. number of words for comment – Bilaal Abdel Hassan May 16 '22 at 09:41

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 19 '20 at 20:17

I personally just switched to my production server when this happened. Because this is a new IP location, Google attempted to protect my account by blocking the sign-in.

To fix this, I followed the steps in this answer:

First, enable access to less secure apps in your Google account here: https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps

Since I had already done this, and my problem was now because of a new IP address, I had to manually confirm the next sign-in attempt using this link: https://accounts.google.com/DisplayUnlockCaptcha

See the linked answer for more information.

Not able to send email - Django

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