SMTPAuthenticationError sending email via smtp.gmail

[bradford li]

I am trying to have django send emails but I am getting this error:

    Traceback (most recent call last):

      File "<console>", line 1, in <module>

      File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/django/core/mail/__init__.py", line 62, in send_mail

        return mail.send()

      File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/django/core/mail/message.py", line 286, in send

        return self.get_connection(fail_silently).send_messages([self])

      File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/django/core/mail/backends/smtp.py", line 92, in send_messages

        new_conn_created = self.open()

      File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/django/core/mail/backends/smtp.py", line 59, in open

        self.connection.login(self.username, self.password)

      File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/smtplib.py", line 615, in login

        raise SMTPAuthenticationError(code, resp)

    SMTPAuthenticationError: (534, '5.7.9 Application-specific password required. Learn more at\n5.7.9 http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?answer=185833 v14sm3323298pbs.11 - gsmtp')

The link suggested my to perform a 2-step verification which I did but still no results.

In my settings.py

    EMAIL_USE_TLS = True

    EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'

    EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'em...@gmail.com'

    EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'password'

    EMAIL_PORT = 587

I tried testing this in django shell but got the error shown above:

    >>> from django.core.mail import send_mail

    >>> from django.conf import settings

    >>> sub = "sup man"

    >>> msg = "char lisss"

    >>> from_user = settings.EMAIL_HOST_USER

    >>> to = ["em...@email.com"]

    >>> send_mail(sub,msg,from_user,to, fail_silently=False)

[François Schiettecatte]

It does not really have to do with Django, it has to do with OAuth which Google just started enforcing in gmail, you need to relax the security level on the gmail account you are using on this page:

https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps

François

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[sum abiut]

Have you tried SendGrid mail. create a sendgrid account and used it instead of gmail.

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[rahul kumar]

It is because Google blocks sign-in attempts from apps which do not use modern security standards (mentioned on their support page). You can however, turn on/off this safety feature by going to the link below:

Go to this link and select Turn On

 

https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps

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