changing from address on send_mail

Question

I've hooked in Gsuite as my SMTP server. It sends out emails and it works very well. However, when using the send_mail function in django, I want to indicate a from address other than the email address that I have hooked into Gsuite, which is admin@mywebsite.com.

    subject = 'Order Confirmation'
    from_email = "jim@gmail.com"
    to_email = ("james@gmail.com",)
    txt_message = "some text"
    html_message = "some other text"

    send_mail(subject,
             txt_message,
             from_email,
             to_email,            
             html_message=html_message,
             fail_silently=False,
             auth_user="admin@mywebsite.com", 
             auth_password="PASSWORD"
             )

When an email is sent out with this code, when I look at the resulting email email in the email client of james@gmail.com, the "from" address is admin@mywebsite.com rather than jim@gmail.com.

Is there a way that I can change this so that the 'from' is jim@gmail.com or at least the 'reply-to' is jim@gmail.com?

Thanks for your help!

Did you try DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL setting in projects settings.py? — Amaro Vita, Oct 20 '19 at 11:11
I don't want to use default_from_email. that's why i'm specifying a custom from addresss on each email sent. — Jason Howard, Oct 20 '19 at 11:14
The `from_email` argument in `send_email` should override the DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL setting. — Toni Sredanović, Oct 20 '19 at 11:14