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Hands-On Application Development with PyCharm
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Hands-On Application Development with PyCharm

by Quan Nguyen
September 2019
Beginner to intermediate
494 pages
13h
English
Packt Publishing
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Configuring Django emails

In this subsection, we will finish the share feature for our blog application by configuring the underlying protocols for Django's emailing APIs. First of all, we will need to add a number of variables to the main settings.py file of our Django project, namely the following:

  • EMAIL_HOST: This variable specifies your SMTP host server
  • EMAIL_PORT: This variable specifies your SMTP port
  • EMAIL_HOST_USER and EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD: This pair of variables specifies the credentials for the SMTP server
  • EMAIL_USE_TLS: This variable specifies whether a Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol should be used

The values of these variables depend on your Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) usage. If you already have, or will have, ...

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