Django STMP with IONOS

Question

Having an adress mail managed by IONOS, I'm struggling to set it up with Django to be able to send mails automatically.

Here's my error:

TimeoutError: [Errno 110] Connection timed out

I personnalized the SMTP in my settings:

DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL="mymail"
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.ionos.fr'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'myusername' 
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'mymdp'
EMAIL_PORT = 25
EMAIL_USE_SSL = True

and here's how I send mails:

from django.core.mail import send_mail
def send_forgotten_password_mail(self, request, pk=None):
    send_mail(
        'Subject here',
        'Here is the message.',
        None,
        ['tosend'],
        fail_silently=False,
    )

I'm not that used to send mails through SMTP with Django, so I might miss something.

Thank you for your help.

Answer 1

this works for me in settings.py:

EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.ionos.de'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'myusername' 
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'mypw'

Remark: of course PASSWORD should be read from an environment variable and not placed in setttings.py, but that is not the topic of the question here.