How can I send emails with Django to my gmail account

Question

I've tried sending emails with my Gmail account in Django, but I always get errors. I tried using a sandbox (Mailtrap) and it worked but using the actual Gmail account doesn't. I've also tried using App Password in my google account but it still doesn't work.

EMAIL_BACKEND = "django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend"

EMAIL_HOST = "smtp.gmail.com"

EMAIL_USE_TLS = True

EMAIL_PORT = 587

EMAIL_HOST_USER = "[email protected]"

EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = "password"

Error I always get;

SMTPConnectError at /send/
(421, b'Service not available')

Please how can this be fixed.

Answer 1

I've done it recently using Google App Password. Follow instructions to get 2-step verification, get the password and then put it in your EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD enviromental variable with quotes. (EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'). The other parameters I've set are as follows:

EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = config('EMAIL_HOST_USER')
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = config('EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD')
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
EMAIL_USE_SSL = False

Finally I send the emails on my view with send_mail

from django.core.mail import send_mail