I'm moving my portfolio from PHP to Python (django), and I have a contact form in it, when it was in PHP, it didn't need any credentials, and when it sent the email,I receive an email FROM: user@mail.com normally, now when I tried to convert it to Django, using send_mail, when an email is sent I receive an Email FROM: myemail@gmai.com (me). i want to know how I could fix this, receive the email with the sender email as From, otherwise i wouldn't be able to reply to them. My question is not a duplicate, as i have seen the other questions and their anwers and it didn't help.
Here is the PHP:
<?php
// Replace this with your own email address
$siteOwnersEmail = 'wassim.chaguetmi@gmail.com';
if ($_POST) {
$name = trim(stripslashes($_POST['contactName']));
$email = trim(stripslashes($_POST['contactEmail']));
$subject = trim(stripslashes($_POST['contactSubject']));
$contact_message = trim(stripslashes($_POST['contactMessage']));
// Check Name
if (strlen($name) < 2) {
$error['name'] = "Please enter your name.";
}
// Check Email
if (!preg_match('/^[a-z0-9&\'\.\-_\+]+@[a-z0-9\-]+\.([a-z0-9\-]+\.)*+[a-z]{2}/is', $email)) {
$error['email'] = "Please enter a valid email address.";
}
// Check Message
if (strlen($contact_message) < 15) {
$error['message'] = "Please enter your message. It should have at least 15 characters.";
}
// Subject
if ($subject == '') {
$subject = "Contact Form Submission";
}
// Set Message
$message .= "Email from: " . $name . "<br />";
$message .= "Email address: " . $email . "<br />";
$message .= "Message: <br />";
$message .= $contact_message;
$message .= "<br /> ----- <br /> This email was sent from your site's contact form. <br />";
// Set From: header
$from = $name . " <" . $email . ">";
// Email Headers
$headers = "From: " . $from . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: " . $email . "\r\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n";
if (!$error) {
ini_set("sendmail_from", $siteOwnersEmail); // for windows server
$mail = mail($siteOwnersEmail, $subject, $message, $headers);
if ($mail) {
echo "OK";
} else {
echo "Something went wrong. Please try again.";
}
} # end if - no validation error
else {
$response = (isset($error['name'])) ? $error['name'] . "<br /> \n" : null;
$response .= (isset($error['email'])) ? $error['email'] . "<br /> \n" : null;
$response .= (isset($error['message'])) ? $error['message'] . "<br />" : null;
echo $response;
} # end if - there was a validation error
}
?>
and here is my view in django:
class SendEmail(View):
def post(self, request):
form = SendEmailForm(request.POST)
if form.is_valid():
name = form.cleaned_data['contact_name']
email = form.cleaned_data['contact_email']
subject = form.cleaned_data['contact_subject']
message = form.data['contact_message']
try:
send_mail(subject, message, email, ['wassim.chaguetmi@gmail.com'])
except BadHeaderError:
return redirect("profile:index")
return redirect("profile:index")
else:
return redirect("profile:index")
and here is the project settings:
EMAIL_BACKEND = "django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend"
EMAIL_HOST = "smtp.gmail.com"
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_HOST_USER = "myemail@gmail.com"
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = "***********"
