Django AllAuth - How to manually send a reset-password email?

Question

In my application I am using Django Allauth. I don't have any registration form for users. The admin is going to register users by uploading an excel file that contains user info. I have done all of this and users are saved in the user table by auto generating passwords. After I upload user lists and save them in database, I want to send a reset password email to each user.

In allauth to reset password you first need to go to reset page account/password/reset/ and type your email. then an email is send which directs you to change your password account/password/reset/key/(?P<uidb36>[0-9A-Za-z]+)-(?P<key>.+)/

Is it possible to send the email directly within the app? The url contains a key that I don't know how to generate!! Or is there any better way to do that?

Answer 1

It's possible. My solution implements a User model post_save signal to call the Allauth Password reset view which will send the user the email. The first thing to consider is to make the user email address mandatory in the admin user create form (as explained here). And then use this code:

from allauth.account.views import PasswordResetView

from django.conf import settings
from django.dispatch import receiver
from django.http import HttpRequest
from django.middleware.csrf import get_token


@receiver(models.signals.post_save, sender=settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL)
def send_reset_password_email(sender, instance, created, **kwargs):

    if created:

        # First create a post request to pass to the view
        request = HttpRequest()
        request.method = 'POST'

        # add the absolute url to be be included in email
        if settings.DEBUG:
            request.META['HTTP_HOST'] = '127.0.0.1:8000'
        else:
            request.META['HTTP_HOST'] = 'www.mysite.com'

        # pass the post form data
        request.POST = {
            'email': instance.email,
            'csrfmiddlewaretoken': get_token(HttpRequest())
        }
        PasswordResetView.as_view()(request)  # email will be sent!