In this post I want to talk about how can we send emails using Django and Gmail, I read a lot of articles about this but none of them is working for me, this is my way of doing this

Setup Django 💚 first let's install django pip install django start a django project django-admin startproject send_gmail start a django app cd send_gmail python manage.py startapp send add the app to settings.py installed app

INSTALLED_APPS = [ ... send, ] migrate and create a super user python manage.py migrate python manage.py createsuperuser check this post if you want to know more about how to create a virtual environment , or how to install Django and start your project

The Gmail part ✉ now you need to create a Gmail account and then click on Manage your google account manage account screen shot

now click on the Security tab

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make sure to enable two steps verification

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now click on App passwords

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you have to type your password again

Confirm your password

click on select app choose *** other (Custome Name) *** and give a name to you app

Create a new app

the last step click on generate and Gmail will generate a key or an app password make sure to copy this key or save it in a text file

Create a new app

Edit your settings.py file #gmail_send/settings.py EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com' EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'yoorusername@gmail.com' EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'key' #past the key or password app here EMAIL_PORT = 587 EMAIL_USE_TLS = True DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = 'default from email' 🎉🎉 now you are ready to send emails with Django and Gmail in production🎉🎉

For further exploration you can use SendGrid, Mailgun, Sendinblue... for your apps too don't forget to put your key in a .env file