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.

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