I am trying to send mail when a certain query is executed. But I am getting error in the connection. I have tried the following settings in my settings.py file
server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com') server.starttls() EMAIL_HOST_USER = "email@gmail.com" EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = "password" server.login(EMAIL_HOST_USER, EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD)
I have executed the following command to send the email:
emailFrom = [settings.EMAIL_HOST_USER] html_content = render_to_string('template.html', {'greeting_text': greeting_text}) text_content = strip_tags(html_content) email_subject = "Subject" msg = EmailMultiAlternatives(email_subject,text_content,emailFrom,[email],) msg.attach_alternative(html_content, "text/html") msg.send()
But whenever I run the above code I get ‘please run connect() first’ error. What is the error Exactly about and how do I solve this?
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Answer
Make sure you have all the email settings configured:
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com' EMAIL_USE_TLS = True