Sending email in Divio Cloud applications¶

    Django provides email wrappers around Python’s module.

    The following configuration settings can be provided:

    Basic settings
    EMAIL_HOST and EMAIL_PORT (defaults to 25)
    Authentications settings
    EMAIL_HOST_USER and
    Secure authentication
    EMAIL_USE_TLS and EMAIL_USE_SSL

    However, the preferred way to provide these is via an EMAIL_URL , so that your local, Test and Live servers can use their own configuration.

    The EMAIL_URL is the recommended way of combining the settings into a single variable. Forexample, suppose you have:

    1. smtp://janeausten:password@smtp.example.com:25

    For:

    • SSL, add ?ssl=True (and use port 465)
      to the URL. Note that TLS is preferred, and you can’t use both.

    The URL is parsed using the dj-email-url library.

    Additional Django email settings¶

    Some additional email settings are available in Django. These can be provided as environmentvariables.

    Allows you to specify a default From address for general automated messages from yourwebsite.
    SERVER_EMAIL
    Specifies a default From address for error messages from your site.

    Usage, testing and troubleshooting¶

    It’s beyond the scope of this document to discuss usage in detail. The official has more information.

    Once in the shell, launch the Django shell:

    Import the Django send_mail function:

    1. from django.core.mail import send_mail

    and try sending a message:

    The email settings will be taken from the EMAIL_URL environment variable, butcan be overwritten in the shell - for example: