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I am trying to send email from Django by setting up gmail smtp. But everytime it is returning me 0 status. I have searched different relevant answers in stackoverflow and i am setting up the smtp server the same way but still it is not sending any email.. Below is my setting file

EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'my gmail account'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'my gmail account password'
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = 'my gmail account'
DEFAULT_TO_EMAIL = 'to email'

Below is my code

from django.conf import settings
from django.core.mail import send_mail
print "Sending Email"
mail_title = 'Test Email'
message = 'This is a test email.' 
email = settings.DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL
recipients = [settings.DEFAULT_TO_EMAIL]
print send_mail(mail_title, message, email, recipients, settings.EMAIL_HOST_USER, settings.EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD) 
print "Email Sent"

But everytime it print status 0 which means email is not sent. About the environment i am running this code on Amazon EC2 instance which has ubuntu as an OS and Apache as server..

Do i need to do additional setups for sending email through gmail smtp?? Much appreciate your help Thanks in advance

planet260
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  • does this code work on your own workstation or somewhere else than your EC2 ? this will permit to isolate the origin of the issue –  Oct 09 '13 at 07:13

2 Answers2

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Your gmail.smtp setup is correct. It looks like you are not calling the send_email function correctly, and that's why it's not sending. In the python shell, try the following:

import django
from django.conf import settings
from django.core.mail import send_mail

send_mail('Subject here', 'Here is the message.', settings.EMAIL_HOST_USER,
    ['to@example.com'], fail_silently=False)
Aaron Lelevier
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Try to change EMAIL_USE_TLS=True to EMAIL_USE_SSL=True and EMAIL_PORT=465

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/topics/email/

Pedro Henrique Silva
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