By jstoor21
I have a Django project, in which I’m attempting to send an email using my gmail account. Note this works fine on my dev machine.
Code : from django.core.mail import send_mail … send_mail(subject, message, settings.EMAIL_HOST_USER, [settings.EMAIL_HOST_USER])
Settings :
EMAIL_HOST = ‘smtp.gmail.com’ EMAIL_HOST_USER = ‘xxxxx@gmail.com’ EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = ‘xxxxxxxxxxxxx’ EMAIL_PORT = 587 # Tried 465 as mentioned in;
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-use-google-s-smtp-server
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
Anyone know why I’m getting the exception, when running the code in a VPS. Note : running Gunicorn & Nginx
Any help or advice appreciated.
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It is because Google blocks sign-in attempts from apps which do not use modern security standards (mentioned on their support page). You can however, turn on/off this safety feature by going to the link below:
Go to this link and select Turn On
https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps
Moreover google block an ip when you try to send a email since a unusual location, so, you can unblock in the next link
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6009563
and clicked in
accounts.google.com/DisplayUnlockCaptcha
More info…smtp mail
I was having a similar problem and i solve it changing the order of the settings. <br>It worked exactly like this <br> <br>EMAIL_USE_TLS = True <br>EMAIL_HOST = ‘smtp.gmail.com’ <br>EMAIL_HOST_USER = “xxxx@gmail.com” <br>EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = “xxxxxxxx” <br>EMAIL_PORT = 587 <br> <br>You can try it easy with the django shell: <br> <br>>>> from django.core.mail import send_mail <br>>>> send_mail(‘test email’, ‘hello world’, ‘xxxx@gmail.com’, [‘xxx@yyyy.com’]) <br> <br>hope it helps
Going to https://accounts.google.com/DisplayUnlockCaptcha <br>and then retrying the operation, worked a treat! <br> <br>Thank You Pablo.
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