I am deploying a Django app on Heroku, and using the Sendgrid addon to send out validation email when a user registers on the site.
I followed the instructions here and pasted the following into settings.py:
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.sendgrid.net'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'sendgrid_username'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'sendgrid_password'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
However, my app is crashing after registration.
What exactly am I supposed to put for EMAIL_HOST_USER and EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD?
Under the developer's tab in the sendgrid addon in heroku, it gives me the username app*******#heroku.com, and for password it just says "Your Password". Is the password my Heroku password?
Also, do I need to include DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL in my settings.py file? And where do I tell Sendgrid what it is?
EDIT: I've set DEBUG = True, and it looks like the error is:
SMTPSenderRefused
(550, 'Cannot receive from specified address <info#myapp.com>: Unauthenticated senders not allowed', 'info#myapp.com')
it looks like the problem is happening before Sendgrid does its thing. Do I need to authenticate the email address with Heroku somehow?
Within your settings.py include:
import os
EMAIL_HOST_USER = os.environ['SENDGRID_USERNAME']
EMAIL_HOST= 'smtp.sendgrid.net'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = os.environ['SENDGRID_PASSWORD']
Edit: changed EMAIL_PASSWORD to EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD as that's the correct spelling.
In the intervening 10 years, the above answer has become obsolete. Sendgrid now uses an API key.
https://docs.sendgrid.com/for-developers/sending-email/django
SENDGRID_API_KEY = os.getenv('SENDGRID_API_KEY')
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.sendgrid.net'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'apikey' # this is exactly the value 'apikey'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = SENDGRID_API_KEY
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
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I have been struggling for a while in trying to correctly setup the settings.py to send an email for password reset.This is my current configuration:
SENDGRID_API_KEY = os.environ["SENDGRID_API_KEY"]
SENDGRID_PASSWORD= os.environ["SENDGRID_PASSWORD"]
SENDGRID_USERNAME= os.environ["SENDGRID_USERNAME"]
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.sendgrid.net'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = os.environ['SENDGRID_USERNAME']
#EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'apikey'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = os.environ["SENDGRID_PASSWORD"]
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = os.environ["DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL"]
#SENDGRID_SANDBOX_MODE_IN_DEBUG = False
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
I have come across the following posts that are related to my problem but none of them have worked:
Sending SMTP email with Django and Sendgrid on Heroku
No module named 'sendgrid_backend' in django
Send email with Sendgrid in Django
Setting up email with Sendgrid in Heroku for a Django App
Heroku, Django, and Sendgrid - emails not sending?
When I used the EMAIL_BACKEND = "sendgrid_backend.SendgridBackend"(after I installed the django-sendgrid-v5 library) I didn't receive any error but I didn't receive any email :'( and in the previous cases I encountered the following error SMTPServerDisconnected at /password-reset/ and Connection unexpectedly closed. Any help, suggestion, comment, crazy idea is really appreciated because I have spent several hours in this problem that will be a milestone in my project.
Thank you everyone :)
I had a similar issue deploying a Django app on Google Cloud App Engine. The following configuration (in settings.py) worked for me:
SENDGRID_API_KEY = os.getenv('SENDGRID_API_KEY')
EMAIL_BACKEND = "django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend"
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.sendgrid.net'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'apikey' # Exactly that.
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = SENDGRID_API_KEY
EMAIL_PORT = 587 # 25 or 587 (for unencrypted/TLS connections).
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = os.getenv('DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL')
For SENDGRID_API_KEY, use the API key created in the 'Email API/Integration Guide' section. In your case, choose the SMTP Relay option.
For DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL, use the verified single sender email. You can find it in 'Settings/Sender Authentication'. This is what you type in "from email address" when you create a Sender. More details here.
I don't recommend Robert D's answer because by using ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['*'] you will be prone to HTTP Host header attacks. From the documentation:
"A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE)."
More details here.
I sympathise, having also spent too long on this. But just fixed it today, with as little as the following added into settings.py (and everything else 'out of the box' from Django re password reset).
ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['*']
SENDGRID_API_KEY = os.getenv('SENDGRID_API_KEY')
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.sendgrid.net'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'apikey' # this is exactly the value 'apikey'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = SENDGRID_API_KEY
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
I posted a question earlier where I asked how to get my email to send and was told that it's the provider, so I tried 3 providers and the send_mail and/or EmailMessage function doesn't work with any of them.
So, I strongly think it's something related to my set-up. I get a message in the send_email folder, but no email ever sends and no error is logged.
Here is my settings.py file:
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'myemails#gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'pass'
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = EMAIL_HOST_USER
SERVER_EMAIL = 'myemail#gmail.com'
Might someone else have an idea?
I'm trying to send an "email" from a website in django.
I have completed the main code for doing so:
-)the view function
-)the URLs mapping to make the function reachable from code
-)the sending form at a template
So my sending form would trigger the view function using the path specified in the URLS.
On my server, I have a "postfix" instance installed and tried.
I tried to edit changes in the settings.py and the views.py for about 2 days now but nothing worked.
The errors range between these two
1)
SMTPNotSupportedError at /website/email_send
when settings are
EMAIL_HOST = 'mydomain.com'
EMAIL_PORT = 25 //same for port 587
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'uname'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'pwd!'
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
2)
gaierror at /website/email_send
[Errno -2] Name or service not known
when settings are
EMAIL_HOST = 'mail.mydomain.com' or 'smtp.mydomain.com'
EMAIL_PORT = 25 //same for port 587
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'uname'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'pwd!'
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
I expect the email to be sent using a form in my django site run on a server using postfix
The problem is now fixed.
I found this question and used its answer:
Postfix + Django: SMTPException: SMTP AUTH extension not supported by server
I removed EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'uname' and EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'pwd!'
Then it worked without errors. The settings now are:
...
EMAIL_HOST = 'localhost'
EMAIL_PORT = 25
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
...
I'm looking at https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/email/
My question is, is there way I can use smtp.google.com without authentication or without having to put my auth information into settings.py or as a parameter in the django.core.mail.send_mail function?
At this point I'm looking for best practices for using smtp.google.com on django, I understand there are better solutions such as http://sendgrid.com/
You cannot use smpt.gmail.com without providing your auth_information i.e your gmail password.
However you can put your auth information in a local_settings.py and do not add this local_settings in version control so no one except you would see this file. Include this local_settings in your settings.py.
settings.py
...
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
...
...
from local_settings import *
local_settings.py
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'user#gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'yourpassword'
try including this in settings.py:
# Email configuration.
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'user#domain.com'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'yourpassword'
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = 'user#domain.com'
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
If you have a web domain provider (like namecheap, godady, etc) you can associate you domain (mycompany.com) with Gmail. For that feature ask help in your domain provider or look info in Internet:
http://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/1244/78/
http://help.squarespace.com/customer/portal/articles/581494-how-do-i-set-up-google-apps-for-my-domain-
Hope it helps,
cheers.
Pinax theme for Bootstrap on Django twitter lacks a clear guide. Like how it's supposed to send emails when you haven't specified the email_host and password. Changing the top bar to include other links like Home Contact etc.
I've tried to find the pages, other bootstrap themes from bootwatch also don't take effect. How do you change it?
Email settings will be the same as django's
Example:-
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
# Host for sending e-mail.
EMAIL_HOST = 'localhost'
# Port for sending e-mail.
EMAIL_PORT = 1025
# Optional SMTP authentication information for EMAIL_HOST.
EMAIL_HOST_USER = ''
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = ''
EMAIL_USE_TLS = False
Or if you are using a remote mail server, something like this:-
EMAILS_ALLOWED = True
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'no-replymysite.com'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'myspecialpass'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX = '[MySite.com]'
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = 'MySite.com Auto Notification <no-reply#mysite.com>'
Regarding the 2nd question about changing the theme/look-and-feel, I have responded to a similar question here, just yesterday - How to change the pinax(0.9a2) template?