Django-Email-Sender

Send email from Gmail Id in Django using HTML Template

Pre-Requisites

• Python 3.8
• Pip
• Git

Steps to run:

• Clone the project using the command git clone https://github.com/sukanya-pai/Django-Email-Sender.git

• In PipFile, the dependencies are mentioned. It is recommended to run the app inside a virtual environment to avoid conflict of existing dependencies.

  • Run the command pip install pipenv

  • Run pipenv shell. Creates virtual env

  • Run pipenv install. Installs dependencies from the PipFile and creates PipFile.lock

  • Run python email_project/manage.py runserver to start the server

  • Open http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/send-mail to start

• Make changes in the views.py file of the email_sender_app directory inside the send_mail() method to add your mail address and the recipients mail address accordingly.

• Make changes in the settings.py of the email_project directory file with your gmail id and your app password.

  • Since this is a demo project, the password is written directly in settings.py. For security reasons of your account, it is recommended you store the password in key vault or encrypt it and then host the application or push your changes to GitHub.

• Read change log to see what has changed.

Mandatory changes to be done in Host Gmail account

• Go to https://myaccount.google.com/security

• Scroll till you find Signing in to Google

  • In that section, you will see the "App Passwords" option as shown in the below image.

  

  • When you click on App Passwords, you will be asked to enter your Gmail account password. Enter it and the page would open:

  • Follow the below steps as shown in the image to setup your app password.

  

• Only if you follow the above steps, then you can send mail from your Gmail account using your django code.