Easily send emails with Gmail with Django

Introduction

Currently, I am making a completely private mBaaS-like one, and if it becomes an OSS for everyone, I thought that I should think about accounts etc. so I sent an email.

environment

• Python 2.7.11
• Virtualenv
• Django 1.9.1
• OSX 10.11.6

Since PyAPNs only supports Python 2.x, I implemented it using Python 2 with the knowledge that it will be hit by some elementary school students. I think that it can be used as it is in Python 3.x, so if you feel like it, please

I'm still not compatible with Django 1.10. please forgive me

Preparation

Virtual environment is ready with Virtualenv

$ pip install django==1.9.1
$ django-admin.py startproject sampleproject
$ django-admin.py startapp send_mail

Source code

For the time being, set settings.py like this

sampleproject/settings.py

# coding: utf-8
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INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    'send_mail', #add to
]
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LANGUAGE_CODE = 'ja'

TIME_ZONE = 'Asia/Tokyo'
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EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = '[email protected]'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'passowrd'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'

sampleproject/urls.py

# coding: utf-8

from django.conf.urls import url, include
from django.contrib import admin

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),
    url(r'^', include('send_mail.urls', namespace = 'send_mail')),
]

I want to route each application myself, so it looks like this.

send_mail/views.py

# coding: utf-8

from django.core.mail import EmailMessage
from django.http import HttpResponse

def index(request):
   EmailMessage(u'subject', u'Text', to = ['[email protected]', '[email protected]']).send()
   return HttpResponse('Send your register email')

Create ʻurls.pydirectly undersend_mail`

send_mail/urls.py

from django.conf.urls import url
from accounts import views

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^$', views.index, name = 'index'),
]

The source code itself looks like this. with this

$ python manage.py migrate
$ python manage.py runserver

And then http://127.0.0.1:8000

If it is true, you can do it by accessing, but it is a bit confusing due to Google's Authenticate specification.

Google side settings

1. First, log in with your account!
2. Press the blue button labeled Account
3. A page like the one below will appear. Click Login and Security
4. At the bottom, there is an item called __ Allow unsafe apps __, so if it is off by default, turn it on. It will be available when it looks like the image below

Let's actually try

In my case, I wanted to send an email for those who forgot their login password, so the content of the email looks like this.

An outrage that takes a screenshot of a Twitter tweet and pastes it as it is

bonus

Randomly create a string to reset the password

Python2.x series

import random, string

print(''.join([random.choice(string.letters + string.digits) for i in xrange(10)]))

Python3.x series

import random, string

print(''.join([random.choice(string.ascii_letters + string.digits) for i in range(10)]))

It's that easy!