Django contact form: email not sending - django

Question

I'm currently building a contact form for my website in Django.
The only problem is that the email is not being sent when the form is submitted.
This is the code:
settings.py:
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.console.EmailBackend'
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = "c******o#gmail.com"
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = '****'
EMAIL_PORT = '587'
views.py:
sender_name = form.cleaned_data['nome_completo']
sender_email = form.cleaned_data['email']
message = "{0} has sent you a new message:\n\n{1}".format(sender_name, form.cleaned_data['messaggio'])
send_mail('New Enquiry', message, sender_email, ['c******o#gmail.com'])
My thought:
Since I'm in a virtualenv, when I submit the form, the terminal displays that it was successfully submitted, and gets me back the code right, maybe the email is not sent because of that, or maybe because I'm using a gmail account? Thanks!

Answer 1

Since you are using an SMTP server, why not use the following backend:
django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend
Also, if you are using Gmail, make sure of the following:
Two-Factor authentication is enabled on account
You are using an app password.
You can find these on the security tab on your google account page:
https://myaccount.google.com/security

Answer 2

So the issue is with EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.console.EmailBackend'
This outputs emails to your console for debugging instead of actually sending emails. (See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.1/topics/email/#console-backend)
Don't set EMAIL_BACKEND to anything for production as it defaults to django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend. Then your EMAIL_HOST settings will take effect and the email should be sent out.