Django 1.8 sending mail using gmail SMTP

Question

I was trying send a mail using smtp.gmail.com in django 1.8

My settings.py contains:

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Answer 1

This works for me:

settings.py

EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django_smtp_ssl.SSLEmailBackend'
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'test'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'test@gmail.com'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True

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views.py

email = EmailMessage(
    'subject_message',
    'content_message',
    'sender smtp gmail' +'',
    ['receiver@gmail.com'],
    headers = {'Reply-To': 'contact_email@gmail.com' }
)
email.send()