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While I was learning how to use django-registration app, I discover in the tutorial that I need to know how to send an email for the user to activate the registration.

Thanks to folk at the Django chatroom, they advice me to google 'django gmail' and I discover a post at nathanostgard.com that show roughly how to do it. Here I'm going to extend a little on how to test it using shell.

1. Create a project, django-admin.py startproject gmail
2. Edit settings.py with code below:

   EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
   EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
   EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'youremail@gmail.com'
   EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'yourpassword'
   EMAIL_PORT = 587

3. Run interactive mode, python manage.py shell
4. Import the EmailMessage module,
   from django.core.mail import EmailMessage
5. Send the email,

   email = EmailMessage('Subject', 'Body', t=['mickeyckm@mangoorange.com'])
   email.save()

Hope it help someone Reference here.

written by mangoorange \\ tags: Django, django-registration, email, gmail

(Image above is taken from Lifehacker)

Feeling bored with the current features offered by Gmail? Wanted to try something new from the Gmail Lab?

You got it. Recently, I read an article from Lifehacker that teach me how to enable it. Just copy and paste the link in your URL: https://mail.google.com/mail/?labs=1#settings

As the "Lab" word suggests that the features are still in experimental stage, hence, Google will not be responsible for any mishaps. I tried it, so far so good.

Have fun.

written by mangoorange \\ tags: gmail, labs