Currently following codewithmosh.com's ultimate Django series.
In part 3, we learn about advanced concepts regarding Django utilities. In section two we dive into how to send and work with emails in Django.
This repository serves as a reference for how to work with emails in Django.
We created a mock email server using Docker and the following library: https://github.com/rnwood/smtp4dev
To run the locally with Docker, use the following command:
docker run --rm -it -p 3000:80 -p 2525:25 rnwood/smtp4dev
This will pull the image from DockerHub and create the email server on your computer.
Once the build is complete, you can view the email server's admin panel at:
http://localhost:3000
Django comes equipped with several email backends that suite various use cases.
The course only focused on the SMPT config, but its pretty straight forward to swap it out in favor of another.
Here's a link for more: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/topics/email/
The project is configured to send an email when you visit
localhost:8000/playground/hello/.
Once the page loads, you can navigate to the SMPT admin where you should find an email waiting.
Note: For the email to send make sure the SMPT server we started earlier and the Django development server are both running! 🙃