Django: Why is console email backend not sending emails?

Question

I'm trying to make an app to reset user password via email. I'm using the Django by Example book chapter 3, and also took guidance from this site: https://simpleisbetterthancomplex.com/tutorial/2016/09/19/how-to-create-password-reset-view.html

Settings.py contains the following line:

EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.console.EmailBackend'

together with the required email settings.

I get to the password_reset view, enter dummy mail, click send, which finally brings me to the password_reset_done view. Below is the console output:

C:\PythonProjects\by-example-bookmarks>python manage.py runserver
Performing system checks...

System check identified no issues (0 silenced).
May 01, 2018 - 21:13:39
Django version 2.0.4, using settings 'bookmarks.settings'
Starting development server at http://127.0.0.1:8000/
Quit the server with CTRL-BREAK.
[01/May/2018 21:13:51] "GET /account/login/ HTTP/1.1" 200 1090
[01/May/2018 21:13:57] "GET /account/password_reset/ HTTP/1.1" 200 830
[01/May/2018 21:14:04] "POST /account/password_reset/ HTTP/1.1" 302 0
[01/May/2018 21:14:05] "GET /account/password_reset/done/ HTTP/1.1" 200 602

After the "POST" output I expect to see a dump of the email in response to .console.EmailBackend setting, but got nothing, ever.

What could be the cause of the failure to simulate sending email?

Environment:

Windows 7, django 2.0, on CMD console, under pipenv shell

Edit 1 Same problem on a different machine.

Edit 2 Changing to .smtp doesn't change anything, no error.

EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'

Edit 3 I tried other people's work, like this one: https://github.com/ruddra/django-reset-password/tree/master

Still no luck.

Edit 4 Yet another "other people's work". Still no luck. https://github.com/wsvincent/django-auth-tutorial

Does it ever work?

Edit 5: views.py

from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.shortcuts import render
from django.contrib.auth import authenticate, login
from .forms import LoginForm
from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required

def user_login(request):
    if request.method == 'POST':
        form = LoginForm(request.POST)
        if form.is_valid():
            cd = form.cleaned_data
            user = authenticate( username=cd['username'],
                                 password=cd['password'])
            if user is not None:
                if user.is_active:
                    login(request, user)
                    return HttpResponse('Authenticated '\
                                        'successfully')
                else:
                    return HttpResponse('Disabled account')
            else:
                return HttpResponse('Invalid login')
    else:
        form = LoginForm()
    return render(request, 'account/login.html', {'form': form})

@login_required
def dashboard(request):
    return render(request,
                  'account/dashboard.html',
                  {'section': 'dashboard'})

urls.py

from django.conf.urls import url, include
from . import views
import django.contrib.auth.views
# i think the following does not serve any purpose anymore
from django.contrib.auth import views as auth_views

urlpatterns = [
    # previous login view
    # url(r'^login/$', views.user_login, name='login'),

    # login / logout urls
    url(r'^login/$',
        django.contrib.auth.views.login,
        name='login'),
    url(r'^logout/$',
        django.contrib.auth.views.logout,
        name='logout'),
    url(r'^logout-then-login/$',
        django.contrib.auth.views.logout_then_login,
        name='logout_then_login'),
    url(r'^$', views.dashboard, name='dashboard'),
    url(r'^password-change/$',
        django.contrib.auth.views.password_change,
        name='password_change'),
    url(r'^password-change/done/$',
        django.contrib.auth.views.password_change_done,
        name='password_change_done'),

    # restore password urls
    url('^', include('django.contrib.auth.urls')),
] 

edit 6 My github repo is here, in case anyone's curious: https://github.com/jeffplata/by-example-account

Answer 1

It works now. As suggested by @Burhan Khalid, made very very sure that the there is a user with a valid email. Specifically, the email I'm typing in the reset view is found in the Users model/table.