django rest auth email validation

Question

Can someone explain how to set up email verification for django rest auth ? My settings.py contains:

EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.console.EmailBackend'
ACCOUNT_EMAIL_VERIFICATION = 'mandatory'
ACCOUNT_AUTHENTICATION_METHOD = 'email'
ACCOUNT_EMAIL_REQUIRED = True   
ACCOUNT_USERNAME_REQUIRED = False

And I've added this line in my urls.py:

url(r'^accounts/', include('allauth.urls')),

But when I register with this endpoint: rest-auth/registration/, the email is not sent, but the user is created. What is the good configuration to send email confirmation? Do I have to have a SMTP server?

EDIT: (after @McAbra comment)

Obviously, this setting cannot send email:

EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.console.EmailBackend'

It only print the mail in the django console output. The settings given by @McAbra works well. But in a production environment, is it a good practice to send verification email with gmail? Have I just to create email such noreply.myapp@gmail.com?

EDIT 2:

My other problem is that the sent mail is empty. The template are presents in site-packages\allauth\templates\account\email. The email title is [http://localhost:8000/] but there is no content. I have no error in the python console. Any idea?

Solution for this point:

site-packages\allauth\templates\account\email files must be copied in your-app\templates\account\email

Answer 1

You need to have a SMTP server if you want to send real emails. I like to use Gmail SMTP server. settings.py would be:

EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'gmail_username'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'password from https://security.google.com/settings/security/apppasswords'

Try from there. I'll try to help further if that doesn't help.