Update on this... the issue got solved as follows. Discovered next morning that the mail did go out but was caught in our corporate phishing net because it was going out from webmaster@localhost (apparently some sort of default email address for forgot_password). Adding the DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL to settings.py allowed the mail to be delivered without getting caught in any filter.
-sujit On Tuesday, March 22, 2022 at 4:34:50 PM UTC-7 Sujit Pal wrote: > I implemented registration / login / forgot password functionality in my > application following the steps described here - > https://simpleisbetterthancomplex.com/tutorial/2016/09/19/how-to-create-password-reset-view.html > > I have it working with a google email and password sending on > smtp.gmail.com. Unfortunately it gets caught in the corporate spam folder > and I now have a company email address that I can use. > > However, it will render the message saying that a password link is on its > way, but no email appears. Digging a little, it appears that the message > needs to go through a smtp server which does not need a password. For > example, I can successfully run the following code snippet to send mail to > myself. > > import smtplib, ssl > from email.message import EmailMessage > smtp_server = "..." > from_email = "..." > to_email = "..." > msg = EmailMessage() > msg.set_content("The body of the email is here") > msg["Subject"] = "My testing email" > msg["From"] = from_email > msg["To"] = to_email > context = ssl.create_default_context() > with smtplib.SMTP(smtp_server, port=587) as smtp: > smtp.starttls(context=context) > # smtp.login(msg["From"], "") > smtp.send_message(msg) > > Notice that smtp.login() is commented out. If I uncomment it, it gives me > a smtplib.SMTPNotSupportedError: SMTP AUTH extension not supported by > server. > > I have also tried using django's own send_mail which uses the values in > settings.py and that works as well, ie., I can send an email to myself. > > from django.core.mail import send_mail > send_mail( > "My test subject", > "This is he body of the message", > from_email, > [to_email], > fail_silently=False > ) > > The EMAIL related properties in my settings.py are as follows. > > EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' > EMAIL_HOST = '...' > EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'from_email' > #EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = '' > EMAIL_PORT = 587 > EMAIL_USE_TLS = True > My question is, is there an application specific way by which I can signal > to the django registration code to not login to the SMTP server when > sending hte forgot password email? I tried commenting out the password but > it doesn't seem to have had any effect. > > TIA for any guidance. > > Best, > Sujit > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/5becdcb7-d5f9-4d52-b7e7-72d9d3a9d079n%40googlegroups.com.
