Send email from gmail with Django and Python

Question

I found a lot of posts regarding send email with django, but I've a specific problem with gmail:

here are my settings:

EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
EMAIL_HOST = "smtp.gmail.com"
EMAIL_HOST_USER = "myemail@gmail.com"
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = EMAIL_HOST_USER
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'mypassword
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True

and my view is:

from django.core.mail import EmailMessage, send_mail

    if request.method == 'POST':
        name = request.POST.get('name','')
        email = request.POST.get('email','')
        subject = request.POST.get('subject','')
        text = request.POST.get('text','')

        message = 'From: ' + email + '\n\n\n' + text

        send_mail(subject, message, 'myemail@gmail.com', ['myemail@gmail.com'], fail_silently=False)

Can you please tell me why I get this error? I also checked for google settings like "access from less secure applications" and similar

thank you in advance!!!

edit

I've already allowed less secure apps and clicked on unlock captcha

already answered [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26697565/django-smtpauthenticationerror](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26697565/django-smtpauthenticationerror) — ILdar Migranov, Nov 17 '16 at 17:26
it did not help. I've already done it... but the problem continues to be — scotch, Nov 17 '16 at 17:34

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 17 '16 at 17:35

You can try this also.

import smtplib

def send_mail(request):
    try:
        subject = "Email Subject"
        description ="description"

        gmail_user =  "from@gmail.com" # email id from where you want send mail
        gmail_pwd ="password"
        FROM = 'Admin: <from@gmail.com>'
        TO = "to@gmail.com" #email id where you want send mail
        TEXT = description
        SUBJECT = subject
        server = smtplib.SMTP_SSL()
        server = smtplib.SMTP("smtp.gmail.com", 587)
        server.ehlo()
        server.starttls()

        server.login(gmail_user, gmail_pwd)
        message = """From: %s\nTo: %s\nSubject: %s\n\n%s """ % (FROM, ", ".join(TO), SUBJECT, TEXT)
        server.sendmail(FROM, TO, message)
        server.quit()    
    except Exception,e:
        print 'exception',e

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 18 '16 at 05:05

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hi please check add email id without the gmail extentio ie

EMAIL_HOST_USER = "myemail"

answered Nov 18 '16 at 05:05

Afsal Salim

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Send email from gmail with Django and Python

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