Django — Email

Email Settings

# settings.py
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'your-email@gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'your-password'
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = 'My Site <noreply@example.com>'

Send Email

from django.core.mail import send_mail

send_mail(
    'Subject here',
    'Here is the message.',
    'from@example.com',
    ['to@example.com'],
    fail_silently=False,
)

Send HTML Email

from django.core.mail import EmailMultiAlternatives

msg = EmailMultiAlternatives(
    'Subject',
    'Plain text body',
    'from@example.com',
    ['to@example.com']
)
msg.attach_alternative('<h1>HTML body</h1>', 'text/html')
msg.send()

Email Templates

from django.template.loader import render_to_string

html_message = render_to_string('email/welcome.html', {
    'user': user,
    'site_name': 'My Site',
})

send_mail('Welcome!', '', 'from@example.com', [user.email],
    html_message=html_message
)

Connection

from django.core.mail import get_connection

with get_connection() as connection:
    msg1 = EmailMessage('Sub1', 'Body1', 'from@ex.com', ['to@ex.com'], connection=connection)
    msg2 = EmailMessage('Sub2', 'Body2', 'from@ex.com', ['to@ex.com'], connection=connection)
    msg1.send()
    msg2.send()

Mini Practice

1. Configure email settings
2. Send a simple email
3. Send HTML email
4. Use email templates

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