I'm trying to send an actual email to myself from my website using send_mail. I had used localhost and the following cmd command,
python -m smtpd -n -c DebuggingServer localhost:1025
in order to test it. It intercepts with no problem, but I don't see anything in my inbox.
Here is the settings.py file:
EMAIL_HOST = '178.67.220.242' # My current ip address
EMAIL_PORT = '587' # Port of the email host
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'b....a1@gmail.com' # Here is my actual email
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = '.....' # Here is my actual password from my email login
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
EMAIL_USE_SSL = False
Here is the views.py file:
from django.shortcuts import render
from django.core.mail import send_mail
from .forms import ContactForm
def contact(request):
form = ContactForm
if request.method == 'POST':
message_name = request.POST.get('name')
message_email = request.POST.get('email')
message = request.POST.get('message')
send_mail(message_name, message, message_email, ['b....a1@gmail.com'])
return render(request, 'contact.html', {'form': form})
Here is the error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\1\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\site-packages\django\core\handlers\exception.py", line 47, in inner
response = get_response(request)
File "C:\Users\1\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\site-packages\django\core\handlers\base.py", line 181, in _get_response
response = wrapped_callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)
File "C:\Users\1\PycharmProjects\StasProject\sales_project\contact\views.py", line 15, in contact
send_mail(message_name, message, message_email, ['badabuska1@gmail.com'])
File "C:\Users\1\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\site-packages\django\core\mail\__init__.py", line 61, in send_mail
return mail.send()
File "C:\Users\1\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\site-packages\django\core\mail\message.py", line 284, in send
return self.get_connection(fail_silently).send_messages([self])
File "C:\Users\1\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\site-packages\django\core\mail\backends\smtp.py", line 102, in send_messages
new_conn_created = self.open()
File "C:\Users\1\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\site-packages\django\core\mail\backends\smtp.py", line 62, in open
self.connection = self.connection_class(self.host, self.port, **connection_params)
File "C:\Users\1\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\smtplib.py", line 258, in __init__
raise SMTPConnectError(code, msg)
Exception Type: SMTPConnectError at /contact/
Exception Value: (421, b'Cannot connect to SMTP server 178.67.220.242 (178.67.220.242:587), connect error 10061')
