Send a mail from Django via Amazon SES - django

Question

I am trying to send a mail from my django app via Amazon SES but I keep getting the following error:
smtplib.SMTPSenderRefused: (501, b'Invalid MAIL FROM address
provided', '=?utf-8?q?AKIAWMDVL5UEWNT3ODOO?=')
These are the settings that I am using:
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
EMAIL_HOST = 'email-smtp.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'smtp credential key'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'smtp credential password'
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
and here's the code:
class CompanyCreateAPIView(APIView):
permission_classes = (permissions.AllowAny,)
def post(self, request):
email = request.data["company_email"]
phone = request.data["company_phone"]
def random_with_N_digits(n):
range_start = 10 ** (n - 1)
range_end = (10 ** n) - 1
return randint(range_start, range_end)
code = random_with_N_digits(4)
subject = 'Comapny Creation'
message = 'Company Code is {}'.format(code)
email_from = settings.EMAIL_HOST_USER
recipient_list = [str(email), ]
send_mail(subject, message, email_from, recipient_list)
I tried changing the port but it doesn't work, I have verified the email address in SES.. What is it that I am missing ?

Answer 1

You probably do not want to use the SMTP credentials username as the "email from" value. That should be something human readable, whatever you want your recipients to see as the address where the email came from. That address and/or domain also need to be whitelisted in the SES settings.
In Django's settings.py, set the DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL setting to that address:
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = 'info#example.com'
Do not pass email_from as an explicit setting to send_mail, unless you want to override it for specific emails (e.g. send from info#... for certain emails and newsletter#... for other kinds of emails).