my demo installation in localhost cant upload and process voter list

[Kodondi shadrack]

Hello members, am due to put up a demo for a private election, yet when i try to upload list of voters, the list just doesn't get processed in order for me to send email invitations. Other functionalities are also not available like tracking

Kindly assist

Thanks

[Warwick McNaughton]

Emails are handled by Django.

Django has various backends:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.2/topics/email/#email-backends

The default assumes you have a SMTP server on-board and the email settings in settings.py are used.  I have not tried to set up an email server locally and when testing locally I use one of the other backends - in settings.py:

EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.console.EmailBackend'
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.locmem.EmailBackend'
EMAIL_BACKEND = ‘django.core.mail.backends.dummy.EmailBackend’

Setting up an email server is fairly complicated - I have given descriptions for doing this when deploying to Heroku or AWS.
https://wrmack.github.io/helios-server-docs/site/deploy_heroku_walkthrough/

If you are using Ubuntu, your version might come with Sendmail built in - I am not sure.  If so, it is then a matter of ensuring the email settings in settings.py match Sendmail’s configuration.

If you have an email server running it can be tested under Django:

python3 manage.py shell >>> from django.core.mail import send_mail >>> send_mail('Subject', 'Message', ’send_email_address', [‘receiver_email_address'])

Warwick

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