Awesome Tracey. Almost all of my doubts regarding django emailing are gone. Except One. Assuming I haven't set anything in the settings regarding emailing. So NO EMAIL_HOST_USER, nothing else... I try sending the email from the django shell(python manage.py shell) to somevalidu...@xyz.com, using some arbitrary from_email id and not supplying auth_user and auth_password in the send_email call? Where will the email be? This context is assuming local sendmail is up and running.
On Jan 29, 12:08 am, Karen Tracey <kmtra...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 1:39 PM, madhav <madhav....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > To add to my previous reply.... > > Even EmailMessage class has got from_email attribute which means it > > can have dynamic EmailMessage. > > If it has to only pick settings.EMAIL_HOST_USER, why would it require > > a atttribute called from_email? > > EMAIL_HOST_USER (and password) are used to login to the SMTP server: > > http://docs.python.org/library/smtplib.html#smtplib.SMTP.login > > This step is optional -- not all mail servers require login. > > The From address you specify when calling one of the Django routines to send > mail is passed along as the from address when sending the mail: > > http://docs.python.org/library/smtplib.html#smtplib.SMTP.sendmail > > A "from" address is not optional when sending mail, so it has to be > specified. > > The question then arises, what does the SMTP server do when these two values > do not match? A user has authenticated using one identity but then sends > mail claiming to be from some other identity. Apparently some (at least > gmail, I don't know how others behave, and as I said earlier this may be > required behavior) just ignore the value set for "from" and use the > authenticated identity as "from". > > If you want to send mail that appears to be from your users, I think this > will be hard to do if you are using an SMTP server that requires login. You > will need to ensure all your users have logins on the SMTP server you are > using, and you will need to use the Python smtplib routines directly to > create the connection, login using the user's id and password, and then send > the mail. (Django has only one setting for the SMTP login/pw -- > EMAIL_HOST_USER and EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD -- to use when connecting to the > mail server, and I don't expect extending that to support what you are > talking about would be high on the list of things to add.) > > If you happen to be using an SMTP server that does not actually require > login, though, getting what you are looking for may be as simple as removing > the EMAIL_HOST_USER and EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD settings from your > configuration. Then the Django mail utility routines will not login to the > server, and there will be no conflict between the logged-in identity and the > From identity specified in the mail. > > Karen --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
