Django - Gmail - SMTPAuthenticationError

Question

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.

grovalmitch · Answer

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

fsicardi · Answer

I was having a similar problem and i solve it changing the order of the settings.
It worked exactly like this

EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
EMAIL_HOST = ‘smtp.gmail.com ’
EMAIL_HOST_USER = “xxxx@gmail .com”
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = “xxxxxxxx”
EMAIL_PORT = 587

You can try it easy with the django shell:

>>> from django.core.mail import send_mail
>>> send_mail(‘test email’, ‘hello world’, ‘xxxx@gmail .com’, [‘xxx@yyyy .com’])

hope it helps

jstoor21 · Answer

Going to https://accounts.google.com/DisplayUnlockCaptcha
and then retrying the operation, worked a treat!

Thank You Pablo.

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