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

I used this for django 1.11

In settings.py

EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'sender' #sender mail password
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'sender@mail.com' #sender mail username
EMAIL_PORT = 587
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = EMAIL_HOST_USER

In view.py

send_mail('mail subject', 'body content',settings.EMAIL_HOST_USER,
                      ['receiver@mail.com'], fail_silently=False)

and goto https://myaccount.google.com/u/0/security?hl=en to enable Less secure app access