Django send_mail

In Django, you can send emails using the send_mail function from the django.core.mail module. Here's a basic example:

from django.core.mail import send_mail

subject = 'Hello from Django'
message = 'This is a test email sent from Django'
from_email = '[email protected]'
recipient_list = ['[email protected]']

send_mail(subject, message, from_email, recipient_list)

In this example, send_mail takes five arguments:

1. subject: The subject of the email.
2. message: The body of the email.
3. from_email: The email address that the email is sent from.
4. recipient_list: A list of email addresses that the email is sent to.
5. fail_silently: A boolean that determines whether to raise an exception if the email cannot be sent (default is False).

You can also specify additional arguments, such as:

• auth_user: The username to use for authentication (default is None).
• auth_password: The password to use for authentication (default is None).
• connection: The connection to use for sending the email (default is None).

Here's an example with additional arguments:

from django.core.mail import send_mail

subject = 'Hello from Django'
message = 'This is a test email sent from Django'
from_email = '[email protected]'
recipient_list = ['[email protected]']
auth_user = 'your_username'
auth_password = 'your_password'

send_mail(subject, message, from_email, recipient_list, auth_user=auth_user, auth_password=auth_password)

You can also use the EmailMessage class from the django.core.mail module to create a more complex email message:

from django.core.mail import EmailMessage

subject = 'Hello from Django'
message = 'This is a test email sent from Django'
from_email = '[email protected]'
recipient_list = ['[email protected]']

email = EmailMessage(subject, message, from_email, recipient_list)
email.send()

In this example, you can add additional headers, attachments, and other features to the email message.

It's also worth noting that you can use a custom email backend by setting the EMAIL_BACKEND setting in your settings.py file. For example:

EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'

This will allow you to use a custom SMTP server to send emails.