Amazon SES SMTP with Django

Question

I'm trying to use Amazon's new SMTP service for SES with Django 1.3.1 but I'm not having much luck.

I've created my SES SMTP credentials and have this in my settings:

EMAIL_USE_TLS = True EMAIL_HOST = 'email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com' EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'my-smtp-user' EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'my-smtp-password' EMAIL_PORT = 465 

Then I try sending a test email (from and to verified email addresses):

from django.core.mail import send_mail  send_mail('Test subject', 'This is the body', '[email protected]',['[email protected]'], fail_silently=False) 

But I get the following error:

SMTPServerDisconnected: Connection unexpectedly closed 

I can telnet to the server:

telnet email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com 465 

Answer 1

I found a much simpler solution that would allow me to use Django's built-in mail classes so I can still get my admin error email reports etc.

Thanks to this little beauty I was able to use SES SMTP without any problems:

https://github.com/bancek/django-smtp-ssl

Download and install (python setup.py install)

Then just change your settings to use this new email backend:

EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django_smtp_ssl.SSLEmailBackend' 

The rest of the settings are as per normal:

EMAIL_HOST = 'email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com' EMAIL_PORT = 465 EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'my_smtp_username' EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'my_smtp_password' EMAIL_USE_TLS = True 

Answer 2

2019 Update: Django 2.2.1

EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'  EMAIL_HOST = 'email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com' EMAIL_PORT = 587 EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'my_smtp_username' EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'my_smtp_password' EMAIL_USE_TLS = True 

No library needed.

Credits : https://stackoverflow.com/a/32476190/5647272

Reference : https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/topics/email/