settings.py file of the project: EMAIL_HOST: SMTP server host, the default islocalhost.EMAIL_PORT: SMTP port, default is25.EMAIL_HOST_USER: The user name of the SMTP server.EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD: SMTP server password.EMAIL_USE_TLS: Whether to use a secure TLS connection.EMAIL_USE_SSL: Whether to use a secure SSL connection.
If you can’t use an SMTP server, you can set Django to output emails to the shell. This is handy for testing an application without a server. If you need to send emails but don’t have a local SMTP server, you can use an ISP server. The following configuration will work for sending through Gmail with a Google account:
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com
EMAIL_HOST_USER = '[email protected]' EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = ' your_password '
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
Run the python manage.py shell command to open a shell and send emails as follows:
>>> from django.core.mail import send_mail
>> send_mail('Django mail', 'This e-mail was sent with Django,
'[email protected]', ['[email protected]'], fail_silently=False)
The send_mail() function takes the subject, message, sender, and recipient list as arguments. With the optional fail_silent=False argument, you can make an exception be thrown when a failed attempt to send is made. If the output is 1, then the mail was sent. If a Gmail account will be used, the following item should be activated in the settings at https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps: Now you need to add functionality to the view: Edit the post_share view in the views.py file of the blog application:
from django.core.mail import send_mail
def post_share(request, post_id)
# Get post by id
post = get_object_or_404(Post, id=post_id, status='published')
sent = False
if request.method == 'POST'
# The form has been sent
form = EmailPostForm(request.POST)
if form.is_valid()
# Form fields have been validated
cd = form.cleaned_data
post_url = request.build_absolute_uri(post.get_absolute_url())
subject = '{} ({}) recommends you read '{}'".format(cd['name'], cd['email'], post.title)
message = 'Read "{}" at {}nn{}'s comments: {}'.format(post.title, post_url, cd['name'], cd['comments'])
send_mail(subject, message, '[email protected]', [cd['to']])
sent = True
else
form = EmailPostForm()
return render(request, 'blog/post/share.html', {'post': post,
'form': form,
{ 'sent': sent})
Declare the sent variable and set it to True when the post is submitted. This variable will be used later in the template to display a message about the successful submission. Since you need to include a link to the post in the email, the get_absolute_url() method will be used to get the absolute path. It will be used as input for request.build_absolute_uri() to build the URL with the HTTP schema and hostname. The subject and body of the email are created based on the cleared data from the submitted form. Finally, the email is sent to the address specified in the to field of the form. When the view is ready, you need to add a new URL template. Open the blog application’s urls.py file and add the post_share URL template:
urlpatterns = [
# ..
path('<int:post_id>/share/',
views.post_share, name='post_share'),
]
