Sending Email from form

[Emmanuel klutse]

Hello Team. 

I’m new to programming and I’ve been studying Django for 6 months now. I just started my first project and i need help with handling sending emails from a user form.

I am using send_mail function to allow anyone who wants to contact me through my contact page. Its is working fine but I need a way for Django to allow me get an email from my application using the email address provided by the user in fill the form instead of the one I provided in settings.py.

Please help…. I have been on this for the past one week. 

I’m also available to assisting anyone who needs someone with my level on a project for free. 

Thank you

Emmanuel klutse

+233202729851

[Charlotte Wood]

I need this too!!

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[Sithembewena L. Dube]

I just finished a project where I did the same thing you require.

I used the Mailgun API.

The relevant documentation can be found here:
https://documentation.mailgun.com/en/latest/user_manual.html#sending-via-api

Kind regards,
Lloyd

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[Emmanuel klutse]

Thank you Dube!!! Will check it out and update shortly. 

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[Sithembewena L. Dube]

You're welcome Emmanuel.

Fyi, I think using one email as the 'from' address and sending the user-provided one in the email body may be easier, as mail sent from different addresses yet from the same mail server IP address may be flagged as spam (Barracuda Networks is an example of such an enforcer).

My solution was as follows:

- Declare a Django Form that accepts the email address. Call the field whatever you like, e.g. 'email_address'

- In your view, if request.method == 'POST':

-    if form.is_valid():

-        email_address = form.cleaned_data['email_address']

- Build a message and include the email in its text

- Call send_mail(...) and use an email address you provided (as the 'from' address)

Kind regards,
Lloyd

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[Emmanuel klutse]

Thanks ones again, 

-How do I build a message and include the email in its text please. I can I get a snippet please. 

Thanks 

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[Sithembewena L. Dube]

Basically, you would need to build it in string form.

This could be done through a combination of string interpolation and concatenation.

Here is my quick hack below (I have not shown all the code).

There is a cleaner way to do this, e.g. using templates, but I wanted something that would "just work" for the time being.

first_name = form.cleaned_data['first_name']

last_name = form.cleaned_data['last_name']

start_date = form.cleaned_data['start_date']

number = form.cleaned_data['number']

message = form.cleaned_data['message']

number_of_people = form.cleaned_data['number_of_people']

if is_type == 'admin':

sender = form.cleaned_data['email']

return 'Booking request for "{}" tour starting '.format(tour) + str(start_date) + ' from {} {}.'.format(first_name, last_name) + \

'\n\nNumber of people: {}'.format(number_of_people) + \

'\n\nThe message is as follows: \n\n"' + message + \

'"\n\nSent by: {} {}'.format(first_name, last_name) + '\n' + sender + '\n' + number

elif is_type == 'client':

return 'Dear ' + first_name + ' ' + last_name + ',\n\n' +\

'Your booking request for our "{}" Tour has been received.'.format(tour) + \

'\n\nNumber of people: {}'.format(number_of_people) + \

'\n\nThe message is as follows: \n\n"' + message + \

'"\n\nWe will respond as soon as possible.' +\

Kind regards,
Lloyd

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