[patch] Support TLS for django mail

[bjorn@…]

This patch enables a new settings variable EMAIL_TLS, which if present and evaluates to non-zero, will make Django send emails using TLS (SSL). I don't have a local SMTP server set up on my laptop, so with this I can do development on the laptop and send emails via our office SMTP server which (sanely so) requires an encrypted connection.

[bjorn@…]

Patch to enable TLS support for django.core.mail.send*mail

[bjorn@…]

New version w/ default config variable global_settings

[Ramiro Morales]

Adding the [patch] prefix to the Summary (and at the same time testing if the whitelisting of IP adddresses in Akismet works :)

[Adrian Holovaty]

This is outside the scope of Django's (very simple) mail-sending framework. The mail-sending framework intentionally does not do many things; for more intensive applications, you can just use Python's smtplib.

[James Wheare <django@…>]

This is a problem if your host requires all SMTP connections to be via SSL. Since Django itself relies on this (very-simple) framework to send out broken link and 500 emails, it would be nice if it were equipped to handle this particular setup rather than choke on an smtplib error that my own app can't easily work around.

[boxed@…]

The patch in #3560 gives support for gmail specificially, the patch in this issue does not.

I am with James on this. Plus, for my own domain I am using googles hosted email service, so I have no longer any access to a non-encrypted SMTP server. Considering google is making this service free this will only be more common in the future I predict.

[mail@…]

modified and updated patch against rev 4815, works here with a hosted Google account

[Malcolm Tredinnick]

(In [5144]) Fixed #2897 -- Added support for TLS connections to email handling. This means
servers like Google's SMTP server can now be used for admin emails.

[aronchi]

My settings: EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com' EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'test@…' EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'test' EMAIL_PORT = 587 EMAIL_USE_TLS = True

my view:

email = EmailMessage(subject, t.render(c), to = [settings.CONTACT_FORM_TO],from_email='pippo@pluto')

In my gmail I receive the emails from my google identity, not the from I set.

Is there any solution?

[Karen Tracey]

Replying to aronchi:
You'd be better off posting your question on django-users. Very few people are going to notice a question posted in a closed ticket. Personally I'd guess the Google SMTP server does not allow you to lie about the from field, but you're more likely to find someone who knows for sure on the mailing list than here.