i am not able to send email using django in digital ocean

Question

My Code is working fine locally but not on digital ocean…What should I do. Do I have to install anything on droplet for sending mail. I am stuck. Please help me.

KFSys · Answer

Hey @cutelapisanemone , Which port are you using to send out e-mails, is it port 25 or 465? If you are using port 25, I’ll recommend using 465 as it’s considered more secure. If however you want to use 25 or you are still having issues with port 465, I’ll recommend contacting DigitalOcean’s Support here: https://www.digitalocean.com/support/ DigitalOcean blocks traffic on port 25 for new accounts in an effort to prevent spam from leaving their Droplets and worsening the reputation of their IPs. As such contacting them should be enough to have the block on the IP removed, if that’s the case!

Bobby · Answer

Hi there, In addition to what KFSys already mentioned, what I personally do is to use an SMTP service like SendGrid for example for my outgoing emails. That way I do not have to manage my own email service on my Droplets and most SMTP providers like SendGrid do offer a free plan which is sufficient for a lot of use cases. Best, Bobby

bschoss · Answer

I had a similar problem, maybe this helps. It turned out that the message format made the difference. smtp_server.sendmail would send plain strings but not anything beyond that. Using EmailMessage from email.message resolved the issue. Maybe give it a try. Here the code (with the send_mail commented out for reference, this worked locally but not on DO): #from django.core.mail import send_mail from xxx.settings import EMAIL_BACKEND, DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL, EMAIL_HOST, EMAIL_HOST_USER, EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD, EMAIL_PORT, EMAIL_USE_TLS, EMAIL_USE_SSL import smtplib from email.message import EmailMessage def send_otp_to_user_email(email, otp): subject = 'PW change' message_text = 'Please use thos code to reset your PW: ' + str(otp) email_from = DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL recipient_list = [email,] '''result = send_mail( subject, message_text, email_from, recipient_list, auth_user = EMAIL_HOST_USER, auth_password = EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD, fail_silently=False)''' msg = EmailMessage() msg['Subject'] = subject msg['From'] = email_from msg['To'] = email msg.add_header('Content-Type','text/html') msg.set_content(message_text) try: #smtp_server = smtplib.SMTP_SSL(EMAIL_HOST, EMAIL_PORT) smtp_server = smtplib.SMTP(EMAIL_HOST, EMAIL_PORT) smtp_server.login(EMAIL_HOST_USER, EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD) try: smtp_server.sendmail(email_from, recipient_list, msg.as_string()) except Exception as ex_sendmail: smtp_server.close() return -1 smtp_server.close() return 1 except Exception as ex: return 0 return result

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