I am trying to have django send emails but I am getting this error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "<console>", line 1, in <module> File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/django/core/mail/__init__.py", line 62, in send_mail return mail.send() File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/django/core/mail/message.py", line 286, in send return self.get_connection(fail_silently).send_messages([self]) File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/django/core/mail/backends/smtp.py", line 92, in send_messages new_conn_created = self.open() File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/django/core/mail/backends/smtp.py", line 59, in open self.connection.login(self.username, self.password) File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/smtplib.py", line 615, in login raise SMTPAuthenticationError(code, resp) SMTPAuthenticationError: (534, '5.7.9 Application-specific password required. Learn more at\n5.7.9 http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?answer=185833 v14sm3323298pbs.11 - gsmtp')
The link suggested my to perform a 2-step verification which I did but still no results. In my settings.py EMAIL_USE_TLS = True EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com' EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'em...@gmail.com' EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'password' EMAIL_PORT = 587 I tried testing this in django shell but got the error shown above: >>> from django.core.mail import send_mail >>> from django.conf import settings >>> sub = "sup man" >>> msg = "char lisss" >>> from_user = settings.EMAIL_HOST_USER >>> to = ["em...@email.com"] >>> send_mail(sub,msg,from_user,to, fail_silently=False) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/3047e0c7-86f9-477a-be92-76ba53a43225%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.