django-allauth - Send email verification using Gmail account

Question

I have setup allauth to send out an email for every new registered user so that their email can be verified. Right now I use the email_backend so that the email is sent to the terminal instead, and everything works fine.

But now I want to can set it all up so that an email is sent, and since I will (likely) not have a local email server at the host server, but instead use for example an gmail account to send the verification email. Is this at all possible?

use mailgun, it is a better choice! – tim Feb 12 '18 at 06:34 — tim, Feb 12 '18 at 06:34
Does that mean we don't need any API? – Irfan wani Aug 31 '20 at 10:22 — Irfan wani, Aug 31 '20 at 10:22

score 12 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 31 '15 at 10:02

Of course you can set your gmail account to send emails. Just set these settings for django:

EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_HOST_USER = DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = 'gmail account'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'gmail password'

django-allauth - Send email verification using Gmail account

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