Hi, I'm new to mail servers. My issue is that I want to enable my website's users to email each other directly via their personal (often gmail) accounts. I've have the default Email backend set up and my settings file looks like this:
EMAIL_HOST='smtp.gmail.com' EMAIL_HOST_USER='b...@mycompany.com' EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD='mypass' EMAIL_PORT=587 When I try to send mail to a user with the send_mail() function, the sender naturally defaults to b...@mycompany.com, even when I add a "sender" argument to the function, such as b...@gmail.com. HOWEVER, when I add another user from my google apps account (i.e. h...@mycompany.com) to that sender argument, it does send override the default and send the mail from h...@mycompany.com. Now, an additional wrinkle is that when I add the option "auth_user" and "auth_password" arguments to the send_mail function (ie. b...@gmail.com + myotherpass), it also overrides the EMAIL_HOST_USER default. What this is suggesting to me is that I need to pass my gmail credentials to override the default. That's a problem for sending mail between users because I obviously don't have their passwords. I know that you can spoof FROM fields and clearly there are webservices out there that send emails from any account to any account, without credentials. What am I missing here? Thanks, Ben -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
