Django sending email with dynamic SMTP settings

Question

I am trying to make EMAIL_HOST settings configurable within admin and I will create a model with required fields like:

• EMAIL_HOST
• EMAIL_HOST_USER
• EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD
• EMAIL_PORT

But how can I use those fields in views using send_mail?

Answer 1

If you want to use send_mail, you'll have to create your own email backend which uses your custom settings and then pass it to send_mail in the connection attribute.

Answer 2

This works for me

from django.core.mail import EmailMessage
from django.core.mail.backends.smtp import EmailBackend

config = Configuration.objects.get(**lookup_kwargs)

try:

    backend = EmailBackend(
        host=config.host,
        port=config.port,
        password=config.password,
        username=config.username,
        use_tls=config.use_tls,
        fail_silently=config.fail_silently
    )

    mail = EmailMessage(
        subject="subject",
        body="body",
        from_email=config.username,
        to=["[email protected]"],
        connection=backend,
    )
    mail.send()

except Exception as err:
    print(err)