Django form send emails in console but not to my mailbox - django

Question

I'm getting some practice using Django and now I'm stuck trying to get a contact form to work.
What I'm trying to do is: once the "Submit" button is clicked, I should receive the form data in an email arriving at the email address linked to my website. Instead what happens is: once I clicked on the "Submit" button, the page loads for some time and at the end I get a SMTPServerDisconnected error.
Can you tell me if I made a mistake in writing some logic or if it is a problem that I have to solve with my hosting service?
This is forms.py:
from django import forms
class ContactForm(forms.Form):
name = forms.CharField(label='Your name', max_length=200,
widget=forms.TextInput(attrs={'class': 'form-control', 'id': 'name'}))
from_email = forms.EmailField(label='Your email', max_length=200, widget=forms.TextInput(
attrs={'class': 'form-control', 'id': 'email'}))
subject = forms.CharField(label='Enter a subject', max_length=200,
widget=forms.TextInput(attrs={'class': 'form-control', 'id': 'subject'}))
message = forms.CharField(label='Write here your message', max_length=500,
widget=forms.TextInput(attrs={'class': 'form-control', 'id': 'message'}))
This is view.py (I replaced each address with dummy addresses):
def home(request):
if request.method == 'POST':
form = ContactForm(request.POST)
if form.is_valid():
subject = form.cleaned_data['subject']
body = {
'first_name': form.cleaned_data['name'],
'email_from': form.cleaned_data['from_email'],
'message': form.cleaned_data['message'],
}
message = "\n".join(body.values())
try:
send_mail(subject, message, 'example#example.com',
['mydomainemail#example.net'], fail_silently=True)
except BadHeaderError:
return HttpResponse('Invalid header found')
form = ContactForm()
return render(request, 'index.html', {'form': form})
And this is settings.py:
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
EMAIL_HOST = 'mail.mydomain.net'
EMAIL_PORT = SmtpPort
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'mydomainemail#example.net'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'my email password'
I tried to see if in the VS Code terminal the form works and that's why I replaced
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
with
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.console.EmailBackend'
and it works.
So I tried to replace the EMAIL_PORT with the IMAP PORT and POP3 PORT, but nothing happened.

Answer 1

One of the reason why that doesnt work is a lot of mail providers use two step authentication. for my case it was outlook that have the issue. i suggest creating a gmail account and add app password and use that email to send emails. here you can find how to use that.