Now it's time to do the necessary configurations for the email client.

Configuring Settings File

The configurations for the email client are going to be placed in the settings.py file. Add the below content to your settings file. We'll go over each line right after.

EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'

# Use Django's SMTP backend for sending emails.

EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.example.com'

# The SMTP server address (e.g., 'smtp.gmail.com', 'smtp.mailgun.org').

EMAIL_PORT = 587

# The SMTP port number (587 for TLS, 465 for SSL, 25 for non-encrypted).

EMAIL_USE_TLS = True

# Use TLS (True for secure connection, False otherwise).

EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'your-email@example.com'

# The email address or username used to authenticate with the SMTP server.

EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'your-email-password'

# The password for the above email account.

DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = 'noreply@example.com'

# The default sender address for outgoing emails.

For your configuration, whether you're using a personal email, or an email with a custom domain, you're going to need to use an app password. Email providers like Gmail, Proton, etc are going to have documentation on how to get an app password for your email account that you're trying to use.

Just a quick side note... Be very careful about handling your passwords. Even for personal projects, I'd highly recommend using some sort of config or properties file; something that isn't pushed to GitHub. It's very easy to forget that your repo is public, and then push your app password on here.

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