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smtp django settings May
11 1
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I have to go trolling the internet every time I need to locate the default email variables that I need to set up the SMTP connection the settings file for Django, so I'm throwing them here for reference. Perhaps someone else might also find this useful.

EMAIL_HOST = 'mail.digitaldreamer.net'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = '*****'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = '******'
EMAIL_PORT = '25'
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = "test@example.com"
SERVER_EMAIL = "test@example.com"

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have your django project use an external SMTP server Mar
22 1
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Most of the time I want to have my Django project send mail through and an external SMTP server. You can easily set this up by adding the following variables to you settings file.

EMAIL_HOST = 'mail.example.com'
EMAIL_PORT = '25'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'test'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = '******'
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = 'test@example.com'
SERVER_EMAIL = 'test@example.com'

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create relative paths for your django settings Mar
22 1
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I wish Django used this by default, but you should be setting up your project using relative paths in your settings. By not hard coding your paths makes your project easier to manage.

Start by setting a variable to use as the base that pulls it's path dynamically through os.path; I use PROJECT PATH.

import os

PROJECT_PATH = os.path.realpath(os.path.dirname(__file__))

You can then append to the PROJECT_PATH variable when setting up your other paths that are based on your project's root path.

MEDIA_ROOT = PROJECT_PATH + '/media/'

TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
    PROJECT_PATH + '/templates/'
)

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