Python Django Gmail SMTP setup

Question

I am trying to send email from Django by setting up gmail smtp. But everytime it is returning me 0 status. I have searched different relevant answers in stackoverflow and i am setting up the smtp server the same way but still it is not sending any email.. Below is my setting file

EMAIL_USE_TLS = True EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com' EMAIL_PORT = 587 EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'my gmail account' EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'my gmail account password' DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = 'my gmail account' DEFAULT_TO_EMAIL = 'to email' 

Below is my code

from django.conf import settings from django.core.mail import send_mail print "Sending Email" mail_title = 'Test Email' message = 'This is a test email.'  email = settings.DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL recipients = [settings.DEFAULT_TO_EMAIL] print send_mail(mail_title, message, email, recipients, settings.EMAIL_HOST_USER, settings.EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD)  print "Email Sent" 

But everytime it print status 0 which means email is not sent. About the environment i am running this code on Amazon EC2 instance which has ubuntu as an OS and Apache as server..

Do i need to do additional setups for sending email through gmail smtp?? Much appreciate your help Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Your gmail.smtp setup is correct. It looks like you are not calling the send_email function correctly, and that's why it's not sending. In the python shell, try the following:

import django from django.conf import settings from django.core.mail import send_mail  send_mail('Subject here', 'Here is the message.', settings.EMAIL_HOST_USER,     ['[email protected]'], fail_silently=False)