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Handling contact form in Django, email not sent


I have an application whereby a user can contact me by filling out a form and in the form the user just has to fill in his details and his email and subject.

The code throws no error but I could not receive the mail after setting up everything, but the contact details gets stored in the database as I want it to be stored.

Below is my code.

Models.py

class Contact(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=100)
    message = models.TextField()
    sender = models.EmailField()
    phone = models.CharField(max_length=10)
    cc_myself = models.BooleanField(blank=True)
    time = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True, db_index=True)

    def __str__(self):
        return 'Message for {}'.format(self.sender)

Forms.py

class ContactForm(forms.ModelForm):

    class Meta:
        model = Contact
        fields = ['name', 'sender', 'phone', 'message', 'cc_myself']

Views.py

def contact(request):
    if request.method == 'POST':
        contact_form = ContactForm(request.POST)

        if contact_form.is_valid():
            name = contact_form.cleaned_data['name']
            message = contact_form.cleaned_data['message']
            sender = contact_form.cleaned_data['sender']
            phone = contact_form.cleaned_data['phone']
            cc_myself = contact_form.cleaned_data['cc_myself']

            recipients = ['[email protected]']
            if cc_myself:
                recipients.append(sender)

            send_mail(name, message, sender, recipients)
            contact_form.save()
            messages.success(request, 'Message sent successfully')
            return redirect('contact:contact')
        else:
            messages.error(request, 'Error sending your Message')

    else:
        contact_form = ContactForm(request.POST)

    context = {
        "contact_form": contact_form,
    }
    template = 'contact.html'
    return render(request, template, context)

gmail server

EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = '[email protected]'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'xxxx'
EMAIL_PORT = '587'
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True

terminal output

MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Subject: adie Ugbe
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2018 11:11:10 -0000
Message-ID: <[email protected]>

oh oh no ooo dddddddd se skan
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Successful

Solution

  • When I am configured it. It sends me email successfully. I have done the code please see it. Visit the link for code: https://www.dropbox.com/s/1ouq5mklq5t51su/mail.zip?dl=0

    settings.py:

    INSTALLED_APPS = [
        'user',
        'django.contrib.admin',
        'django.contrib.auth',
        'django.contrib.contenttypes',
        'django.contrib.sessions',
        'django.contrib.messages',
        'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    ]
    
    STATIC_URL = '/static/'
    EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
    EMAIL_HOST_USER = '[email protected]'
    EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'xxxxxxx'
    EMAIL_PORT = '587'
    EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
    

    views.py:

    from django.shortcuts import render,redirect
    from user.models import *
    from django.core.mail import send_mail
    from user.forms import *
    
    def contact(request):
        if request.method == 'POST':
            contact_form = ContactForm(request.POST)
    
            if contact_form.is_valid():
                name = contact_form.cleaned_data['name']
                message = contact_form.cleaned_data['message']
                sender = contact_form.cleaned_data['sender']
                phone = contact_form.cleaned_data['phone']
                cc_myself = contact_form.cleaned_data['cc_myself']
    
                 recipients = ['[email protected]']
                 if cc_myself:
                 recipients.append(sender)
    
                 send_mail(name, message, sender, recipients)
                 contact_form.save()
                 print('Successful')
                 return redirect('contact')
            else:
                print('Fails')
    
        else:
            contact_form = ContactForm(request.POST)
    
        context = {
            "contact_form": contact_form,
        }
        template = 'contact.html'
        return render(request, template, context)
    

    models.py:

    from django.db import models
    
    class Contact(models.Model):
        name = models.CharField(max_length=100)
        message = models.TextField()
        sender = models.EmailField()
        phone = models.CharField(max_length=10)
        cc_myself = models.BooleanField(blank=True)
        time = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True, db_index=True)
    
        def __str__(self):
            return 'Message for {}'.format(self.sender)
    

    contact.html:

    <form method="post">
      {% csrf_token %}
      {{contact_form.as_p}}
      <input type="submit" name="" value="submit">
      </form>