Amazon SES SMTP with Django
Aug, 2022 Update with Django-3.2.4:
No libraries needed such as django-ses
or django-amazon-ses
!!
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
EMAIL_HOST = 'email-smtp.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'my_smtp_username' # Must create SMTP Credentials
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'my_smtp_password' # Must create SMTP Credentials
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = '[email protected]' # If don't need, comment out!!
I added DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL
.
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = '[email protected]'
If you don't need it, comment it out!!
# DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = '[email protected]'
Moreover, for DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL
, put one verified domain
or email address
whether or not your account is in the sandbox
.
So for the verified domain sender.com
below,
Three of them below are valid: (Use only one of three)
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = '[email protected]' # OR
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = '[email protected]' # OR
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = '[email protected]'
But these two below are not valid: (These give you error)
*The format must be [email protected]
!!
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = 'sender.com'
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = '@sender.com'
Then, for the verified 2 email addresses
below,
Just use only one of two below:
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = '[email protected]' # OR
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = '[email protected]'
Finally, for EMAIL_HOST_USER
and EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD
, you must create SMTP Credentials
.
Choose SMTP Settings
:
Press Create My SMTP Credentials
Button:
Given SMTP Credentials
:
Then, put the SMTP Credentials
as below:
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'AKIAWP3TMGZN4OZH5H37'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'BB6dufiw96jJHUTrowXI8R4gcyOI+t1+Skbi51cdHYhV'
*(I've already deleted these SMTP Credentials
)
Since Django 1.7, you can send email with SSL natively without third party library.
EMAIL_USE_SSL = True
Docs
I found a much simpler solution that would allow me to use Django's built-in mail classes so I can still get my admin error email reports etc.
Thanks to this little beauty I was able to use SES SMTP without any problems:
https://github.com/bancek/django-smtp-ssl
Download and install (python setup.py install)
Then just change your settings to use this new email backend:
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django_smtp_ssl.SSLEmailBackend'
The rest of the settings are as per normal:
EMAIL_HOST = 'email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com'
EMAIL_PORT = 465
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'my_smtp_username'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'my_smtp_password'
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
2019 Update: Django 2.2.1
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
EMAIL_HOST = 'email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'my_smtp_username'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'my_smtp_password'
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
No library needed.
Credits : https://stackoverflow.com/a/32476190/5647272
Reference : https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/topics/email/