Contact-form-django-mailtrap

This can be used to send emails using any SMTP server, like mailtrap,Gmail etc. You may need to setup a virtual environment if you run this on a host.

Django Initializing Commands

Command to create the virtual environment (don't need to use this)

    django-admin startproject myproject .

Command to run (needed)

    python manage.py runserver

Installation

Install the relavant libraries.

Sender and Reciever

• Sender is the SMTP email Host that we mention in the myproject>settings.py.
• Reciever is in the myproject>views.py ['[email protected]'], # Send to (your admin email) . [Not for Mailtrap]
• in Mailtrap no matter what the reciever is it will send to the mailtral inbox.

When using with Mailtrap

Replace below lines in myproject>settings.py , go to mailtrap inbox in email testing and find the SMTP details:

• EMAIL_HOST_USER = '######'
• EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = '#########'

When using with Gmail

Replace below lines in myproject>settings.py , don't put email password EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD instead use app password. to make an app password fo to google mage our google account > security > app password:

• EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
• EMAIL_PORT = 587 # Use 587 for TLS, or 465 for SSL
• EMAIL_HOST_USER = '[email protected]'
• EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'XXXXXXXXX'

Tech Stack

Django, HTML, python