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Sending Godaddy email via Django using python

I have these settings
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtpout.secureserver.net'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'username#domain.com'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'password'
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = 'username#domain.com'
SERVER_EMAIL = 'username#domain.com'
EMAIL_PORT = 465
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
SMTP_SSL = True
Speaking to Godaddy I have found out these are the ports and settings
smtpout.secureserver.net
ssl
465
587
TLS ON
3535
TLS ON
25
TLS ON
80
TLS ON
or
TLS OFF
I have tried all the combinations. If I set TLS to True I am getting
STARTTLS extension not supported by the server.
If I set to 465 I am getting
If I set other combinations like
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtpout.secureserver.net'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'username#domain.com'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'password'
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = 'username#domain.com'
SERVER_EMAIL = 'username#domain.com'
EMAIL_PORT = 25
EMAIL_USE_TLS = False
For verification, I used Google Mail settings to test if the email sending via python works, and it is working.
Now I want to switch to GoDaddy and I know for the email we use TLS to log in even for POP3 download and it is working, so I am not sure why python / Django option is not working. Can you please help?
I have called Godaddy, they cannot help because it is a software issue - all their settings and ports are working, so I have no one to ask.

This worked for me with my GoDaddy email. Since GoDaddy sets up your email in Office365, you can use smtp.office365.com.
settings.py
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.office365.com'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'myemail#GoDaddyDomain.com'
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = EMAIL_HOST_USER
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'myPassword'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_USE_SSL = False
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
method in views.py that handles sending email. The email variable is from a user form.
from django.conf import settings
from django.core.mail import EmailMessage
def send_email(subject, body, email):
try:
email_msg = EmailMessage(subject, body, settings.EMAIL_HOST_USER, [settings.EMAIL_HOST_USER], reply_to=[email])
email_msg.send()
return "Message sent :)"
except:
return "Message failed, try again later :("

I found this code worked for me.. Hope this will be useful to somebody.I was using SMTP godaddy webmail..you can put this code into your django setting file.
Since you cannot set Both SSL and TSL together... if you do so you get the error
something as, At one time either SSL or TSL can be true....
setting.py
# Emailing details
EMAIL_HOST = 'md-97.webhostbox.net'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'mailer#yourdomain'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'your login password'
EMAIL_PORT = 465
EMAIL_USE_SSL = True

I managed to decide to access the site
https://sso.secureserver.net/?app=emailsetup&realm=pass&
It seems that when accessing, you can enable email for external use.
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtpout.secureserver.net'
EMAIL_HOST_USER='aXXXX#xxxx'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD='AsgGSDAGSasdsagas'
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL='aXXXX#xxxx'
EMAIL_PORT=465
EMAIL_USE_SSL=True
EMAIL_USE_TLS=False
It worked for me

It's been a while but, maybe the answer can help somebody else. I just talked to GoDaddy about the issue and the needed configration they told me was like,
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtpout.secureserver.net'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = env('EMAIL_HOST_USER')
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = EMAIL_HOST_USER
SERVER_EMAIL = EMAIL_HOST_USER
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = env('EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD')
EMAIL_PORT = 80
EMAIL_USE_SSL = False
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
these are the django config settings but, I'm sure that it can be copied to other platforms.
Also, the email dns configration they provided was,

use 'smtpout.asia.secureserver.net' as EMAIL_HOST in Django settings.py. you can refer to the GoDaddy email help page link.
https://in.godaddy.com/help/mail-server-addresses-and-ports-for-business-email-24071

In my case, this way work for me:
#settings.py
EMAIL_BACKEND='django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
EMAIL_HOST='smtpout.secureserver.net'
EMAIL_PORT=465
EMAIL_USE_SSL=True
EMAIL_USE_TLS=False
EMAIL_HOST_USER='your#domain'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD='yourpass'
ADMIN_EMAIL='your#domain'

Django - Sending email works in shell, but not on localhost - ConnectionRefusedError

I'm new to Django, but I have read on the order of 50 pages (mostly SO and Django documentation) and haven't found anything that quite works for my situation.
I'm merely trying to send an email via the send_mail function in Django; although I'm hoping to get this working through SMTP on Gmail, right now it doesn't even work via localhost. When I run my test_email.py file where I'm testing this send_mail function, I get the following error:
ConnectionRefusedError: [WinError 10061] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it
When I run this same send_mail call in the shell (via python manage.py shell), it's completely fine and displays the email just as I would expect. It's only once I try to run it in Django that the error pops up. Note that I get the above error no matter which permutation of the following 2 sets of settings I put in my settings.py file:
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.console.EmailBackend'
EMAIL_HOST = 'localhost'
EMAIL_PORT = 1025
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'myemail#gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = ''
EMAIL_USE_TLS = False
I've also played around with the following in my settings.py file, and various mixes of these settings with the previous set (though I guess I'm getting ahead of myself seeing how localhost isn't working):
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'myemail#gmail.com' # Note I'm using my actual gmail address here in real life
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = '****' # Note I'm using my actual gmail password here in real life
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = 'myemail#gmail.com' # Note I'm using my actual gmail address here in real life
SERVER_EMAIL = 'myemail#gmail.com' # Note I'm using my actual gmail address here in real life
I'm running the following command in a CMD prompt off to the side when I try to run going the localhost route:
python -m smtpd -n -c DebuggingServer localhost:1025
Here's the test_email.py file I'm trying to run in Django, where I get the connection refused error:
from django.core.mail import send_mail,EmailMessage
from django.conf import settings
settings.configure()
# Create your tests here.
# Email test #1: send email from my personal email to myself
send_mail(
'Email Test #1',
'Test if I can send email from my personal Gmail account to another email account via Django project.',
settings.EMAIL_HOST_USER,
['myemail#gmail.com'],
fail_silently=False
)
Any thoughts on why this isn't even working via localhost or suggestions on other things to try would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

I think there are some problem with gmail smtp service. Try using smtp service form sendgrid. It is also free for basic usage. I too was facing the same issue earlier.
In project settings.py
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.sendgrid.net'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'sendgridusername'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'sedgridpasseord'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = 'yourmail#site.com'
still error
Try if `smtp` service is working on your your server.

The following configuration worked for me:
settings.py
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.sendgrid.net'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'apikey' # this is exactly the value 'apikey'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'sendgrid-api-key' # this is your API key
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = 'your-email#example.com' # this is the sendgrid email
I used this configuration, and it worked properly, and I strongly suggest using environment variables to fill EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD and DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL:
import os # this should be at the top of the file
# ...
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.sendgrid.net'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'apikey'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = os.getenv("EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD", "")
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = os.getenv("DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL", "")
In order to send an email, use the following code:
from django.conf import settings
from django.core.mail import send_mail
send_mail('This is the title of the email',
'This is the message you want to send',
settings.DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL,
[
settings.EMAIL_HOST_USER, # add more emails to this list of you want to
]
)

Make sure your settings are in the project settings.py NOT app settings.py as follows
EMAIL_HOST = 'localhost'
EMAIL_PORT = 1025
EMAIL_HOST_USER = ''
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = ''
EMAIL_USE_TLS = False
note the empty string for EMAIL_HOST_USER I think this is your mistake
Once you run your virtual python SMTP using
python -m smtpd -n -c DebuggingServer localhost:1025
You will be able to send to your local smtp server with no problem.
Source

Try to enable this option in your google account after you make sure that your mail and password is right.
https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps?pli=1
google blocks the access to insecure apps.
your code seems to be right!

Sending mail in Django 1.5 with Gmail smtp

I try to send mail with Gmail smtp in my Django App.
I followed some instructions to configure my setting.py file.
Here is my code snippet in setting.py file.
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.dummy.EmailBackend'
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'myusername#gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'my_password'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
then I tried these commands below to send mail to my own gmail account:
python manage.py shell
>>> from django.core.mail import EmailMessage
>>> email = EmailMessage('Mail Test', 'This is a test', to=['myusername#gmail.com'])
>>> email.send()
it returned 1 to me, it should be successful.
However, I can't find the testing mail in my inbox in my gmail.
Are there anything which I missed to set?
I run my Django site on localhost in Debug mode. And the Django's version is 1.5.
Thanks in advance! Any suggestion is appreciated.
UPDTED:
I changed the following code
EMAIL_BACKEND = django.core.mail.backends.dummy.EmailBackend
to
EMAIL_BACKEND = django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend
And, I have succeed to send the mail.

You email backend is set to dummy. Change it to smtp
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
Documentation
Dummy backend just prints to the console, and does nothing

Sending Email with Python 3.2, Virtualenv, and Django

As part of a school project, I am trying to send email via gmail.
We are using django in a virtualenv, because we are using python packages that are not currently installed (mostly Pillow).
The email configuration in settings.py looks like so:
#Email Config
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'validEmail#gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'Apasswd'
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = 'validEmail#gmail.com'
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
This configuration works fine outside of the virtualenv, but when running inside the virtualenv, I get this:
[Errno 10051] A socket operation was attempted to an unreachable network
What can I do to fix this? Thank you.

Drop everything related to your smtp configuration and try this:
## Email
## GMail
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'your-email#gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'your-password'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_FROM = 'your-email#gmail.com'
now go to python manage.py shell and do this
from django.core.mail import send_mail
send_mail('Subject here', 'Here is the message.', 'your-email#example.com',
['to#example.com'], fail_silently=False)
if to#example.com receives the email, everything is fine.

How to send email via Django?

In my settings.py, I have the following:
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
# Host for sending e-mail.
EMAIL_HOST = 'localhost'
# Port for sending e-mail.
EMAIL_PORT = 1025
# Optional SMTP authentication information for EMAIL_HOST.
EMAIL_HOST_USER = ''
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = ''
EMAIL_USE_TLS = False
My email code:
from django.core.mail import EmailMessage
email = EmailMessage('Hello', 'World', to=['user#gmail.com'])
email.send()
Of course, if I setup a debugging server via python -m smtpd -n -c DebuggingServer localhost:1025, I can see the email in my terminal.
However, how do I actually send the email not to the debugging server but to user#gmail.com?
After reading your answers, let me get something straight:
Can't you use localhost(simple ubuntu pc) to send e-mails?
I thought in django 1.3 send_mail() is somewhat deprecated and EmailMessage.send() is used instead?

I use Gmail as my SMTP server for Django. Much easier than dealing with postfix or whatever other server. I'm not in the business of managing email servers.
In settings.py:
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'me#gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'password'
NOTE: In 2016 Gmail is not allowing this anymore by default. You can either use an external service like Sendgrid, or you can follow this tutorial from Google to reduce security but allow this option: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6010255

Send the email to a real SMTP server. If you don't want to set up your own then you can find companies that will run one for you, such as Google themselves.

Create a project: django-admin.py startproject gmail
Edit settings.py with code below:
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'youremail#gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'email_password'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
Run interactive mode: python manage.py shell
Import the EmailMessage module:
from django.core.mail import EmailMessage
Send the email:
email = EmailMessage('Subject', 'Body', to=['your#email.com'])
email.send()
For more informations, check send_mail and EmailMessage features in documents.
UPDATE for Gmail
Also if you have problems sending email via gmail remember to check this guides from google.
In your Google account settings, go to Security > Account permissions > Access for less secure apps and enable this option.
Also create an App specific password for your gmail after you've turned on 2-step-verification for it.
Then you should use app specific password in settings. So change the following line:
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'your_email_app_specific_password'
Also if you're interested to send HTML email, check this out.

My site is hosted on Godaddy and I have a private email registered on the same.
These are the settings which worked for me:
In settings.py:
EMAIL_HOST = 'mail.domain.com'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'abc#domain.com'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'abcdef'
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = 'abc#domain.com'
SERVER_EMAIL = 'abc#domain.com'
EMAIL_PORT = 25
EMAIL_USE_TLS = False
In shell:
from django.core.mail import EmailMessage
email = EmailMessage('Subject', 'Body', to=['def#domain.com'])
email.send()
Then I got "1" as the O/P i.e. Success. And I received the mail too. :)
What is the meaning of domain.com?

For Django version 1.7, if above solutions dont work then try the following
in settings.py add
#For email
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'sender#gmail.com'
#Must generate specific password for your app in [gmail settings][1]
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'app_specific_password'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
#This did the trick
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = EMAIL_HOST_USER
The last line did the trick for django 1.7

You need to use smtp as backend in settings.py
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
If you use backend as console, you will receive output in console
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.console.EmailBackend'
And also below settings in addition
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'urusername#gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'password'
If you are using gmail for this, setup 2-step verification and Application specific password and copy and paste that password in above EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD value.

I found using SendGrid to be the easiest way to set up sending email with Django. Here's how it works:
Create a SendGrid account (and verify your email)
Add the following to your settings.py:
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.sendgrid.net'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = '<your sendgrid username>'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = '<your sendgrid password>'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
And you're all set!
To send email:
from django.core.mail import send_mail
send_mail('<Your subject>', '<Your message>', 'from#example.com', ['to#example.com'])
If you want Django to email you whenever there's a 500 internal server error, add the following to your settings.py:
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = 'your.email#example.com'
ADMINS = [('<Your name>', 'your.email#example.com')]
Sending email with SendGrid is free up to 12k emails per month.

I had actually done this from Django a while back. Open up a legitimate GMail account & enter the credentials here. Here's my code -
from email import Encoders
from email.MIMEBase import MIMEBase
from email.MIMEText import MIMEText
from email.MIMEMultipart import MIMEMultipart
def sendmail(to, subject, text, attach=[], mtype='html'):
ok = True
gmail_user = settings.EMAIL_HOST_USER
gmail_pwd = settings.EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD
msg = MIMEMultipart('alternative')
msg['From'] = gmail_user
msg['To'] = to
msg['Cc'] = 'you#gmail.com'
msg['Subject'] = subject
msg.attach(MIMEText(text, mtype))
for a in attach:
part = MIMEBase('application', 'octet-stream')
part.set_payload(open(attach, 'rb').read())
Encoders.encode_base64(part)
part.add_header('Content-Disposition','attachment; filename="%s"' % os.path.basename(a))
msg.attach(part)
try:
mailServer = smtplib.SMTP("smtp.gmail.com", 687)
mailServer.ehlo()
mailServer.starttls()
mailServer.ehlo()
mailServer.login(gmail_user, gmail_pwd)
mailServer.sendmail(gmail_user, [to,msg['Cc']], msg.as_string())
mailServer.close()
except:
ok = False
return ok

You could use "Test Mail Server Tool" to test email sending on your machine or localhost. Google and Download "Test Mail Server Tool" and set it up.
Then in your settings.py:
EMAIL_BACKEND= 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
EMAIL_HOST = 'localhost'
EMAIL_PORT = 25
From shell:
from django.core.mail import send_mail
send_mail('subject','message','sender email',['receipient email'], fail_silently=False)

Late, but:
In addition to the DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL fix others have mentioned, and allowing less-secure apps to access the account, I had to navigate to https://accounts.google.com/DisplayUnlockCaptcha while signed in as the account in question to get Django to finally authenticate.
I went to that URL through a SSH tunnel to the web server to make sure the IP address was the same; I'm not totally sure if that's necessary but it can't hurt. You can do that like so: ssh -D 8080 -fN <username>#<host>, then set your web browser to use localhost:8080 as a SOCKS proxy.

For SendGrid - Django Specifically:
SendGrid Django Docs here
Set these variables in
settings.py
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.sendgrid.net'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'sendgrid_username'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'sendgrid_password'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
in views.py
from django.core.mail import send_mail
send_mail('Subject here', 'Here is the message.', 'from#example.com', ['to#example.com'], fail_silently=False)

below formate worked for me
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True EMAIL_HOST = 'mail.xxxxxxx.xxx'
EMAIL_PORT = 465
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'support#xxxxx.xxx'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'xxxxxxx'

In settings.py configure the email as following
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'user#gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'password'
In most of the cases Gmail settings is missed out. Make sure that the less secure app access is turned on. You can also check the procedure here
Then send email within views
from django.core.mail import send_mail
def send(request):
send_mail(
‘Email Subject here’,
‘Email content’,
settings.EMAIL_HOST_USER,
[‘emailto#gmail.com’],
fail_silently=False)