How to send email via Django?
To test whether emails are being sent through Django terminal, do the following checks. In settings.py EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = EMAIL_HOST_USER Run in interactive mode from Visual Studio Terminal python manage.py shell Import the EmailMessage module from django.core.mail import EmailMessage Send the email with below command. email = EmailMessage('Email Subject', 'This is for email Body', to=['xxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxx.com']) email.send() If the above steps works successfully then your email account is configured to send emails.