Django send_mail not working

Question

When the view that sends the email is used nothing happens, i then entered send_mail(...) into the python shell and it returned 1 but i didn\'t receive any emails.

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Answer 1

If you don't care Preventing header injection: (you should care about it: https://docs.djangoproject.com/es/1.9/topics/email/#preventing-header-injection, but let's continue)

The settings.py:

EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'user@gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'pass'
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True

The views.py (example):

from django.views.generic import View
from django.core.mail import send_mail
from django.http import HttpResponse, HttpResponseRedirect

class Contacto(View):
        def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
            data = request.POST
            name = data.get('name', '')
            subject = "Thanks  %s !" % (name)
            send_mail(subject, data.get('message', ''), 'user@gmail.com', [data.get('email', '')], fail_silently=False)
        return HttpResponseRedirect('/')

This is a dangerous way to send an email

When you first try to send the email, you'll receive a google email advising not to do it. You must 'Activate' the 'Less secure apps' (https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps) and try again. Second time works.