Opened 5 years ago

Closed 5 years ago

#32633 closed Cleanup/optimization (worksforme)

send_mail must make `from_email` argument optional

Reported by: Aryan Iyappan Owned by: nobody
Component: Core (Mail) Version: 3.2
Severity: Normal Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Unreviewed
Has patch: yes Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

the django docs state that, while sending mail, if no from_email is passed, it will use the DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL.
source: ​https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.1/topics/email/

from_email: A string. If None, Django will use the value of the DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL setting.

However, when using the send_mail function, the from_email argument is not optional.
A workaround for this right now is this.

        send_mail(
            subject=subject,
            message=message,
            recipient_list=[self.user.email],
            from_email=None
         )

giving a default value of None to it will resolve this issue.

Change History (3)

comment:1 by Aryan Iyappan, 5 years ago

​https://github.com/django/django/pull/14249
I made a pull request.

comment:2 by Aryan Iyappan, 5 years ago

Has patch: set

comment:3 by Nick Pope, 5 years ago

Resolution: → worksforme
Status: new → closed

DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL will be used if you explicitly pass None to the from_email argument.

We cannot change the order of arguments as it would be backward-incompatible.

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