EmailMessage 'sender' issue - django

Question

i am working on a contact form to receive emails from users. I am using EmailMessage(django 1.3). the problem is, i am able to receive the emails but the 'from'or 'sender' shows email_host_user email instead of the user's email.
so if user has email address user#gmail.com, when i receive the email
from: email#gmail.com
subject: some subject
to: moderator#email.com
instead of
from: user#gmail.com
subject: some subject
to: moderator#email.com
heres a part of the settings
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.googlemail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'password'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'email#gmail.com'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
REVIEW_MODERATOR ='moderator#email.com'
#heres part of the helpers.py
def run(self):
html = get_template(self.kwargs['template'])
html_content = html.render(Context(self.kwargs['context']))
msg = EmailMessage(
self.kwargs['subject'],
html_content,
self.kwargs['sender'],
[self.kwargs['email']],
bcc=[a[1] for a in settings.ADMINS])
msg.content_subtype = "html" # Main content is now text/html
try:
path = self.kwargs['file_path']
except KeyError:
pass
else:
msg.attach_file(path)
msg.send()
#heres part of the contact view
if contact_form.is_valid():
cdata = contact_form.cleaned_data
c={'name':cdata['name'], 'email':cdata['email'],'message':cdata['message']}
EmailThread(**{
'email':settings.REVIEW_MODERATOR,
'sender':cdata['email'],
'subject':email_subject,
'context':c,
'template':template
}).start()

Answer 1

Gmail doesn't let you send as arbitrary senders.
The way around this problem (I was dealing with the exact issue: customer service forms that send us email) is to use one of a very inexpensive SMTP services, or just settle with "reply-to" headers which are still quite functional (email is from from me#gmail.com but clicking reply will point to the reply-to address).