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Hi.

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Welcome back.

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In this video, you learn how to send an email through a Django form more specifically.

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When the user enters some data here.

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Like that.

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And then when they press submit, Django should send an email to the user's email address.

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So that email, the content of that email will contain the data that the user entered.

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So it's like a confirmation email that we sent to the user letting them know that, Oh, you submitted

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a job application to our company.

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These are the data you submitted.

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And so we send that to whatever the user provides here as an email account so the user can enter any

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email account here.

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But for this you need to have your own email account.

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And I do suggest to have a Gmail account, although other accounts should work.

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But I will use Gmail myself.

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So ideally you need two accounts, one to to use as a user and one to use as the email sender address.

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Right.

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But even if you have one that will work, so you can use the same email address as a sender and a receiver.

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So let's go to Django and see.

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We need to import from Django dot core dot mail import email message.

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This is a class, so this is integrated inside Django you don't need to use.

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And SMTP lib the library because this is a high level module in Django which actually is based on SMTP

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lib, but it makes things easier so that it's a more flawless integration with your Django app.

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I think it makes sense to have it after we submit the data right to the database and before we display

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a message to the user.

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So we want to send the email somewhere in here, let's create a message body string first.

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Let's use an F string for that.

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Let's say a new job application was submitted.

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Thank you.

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And then here, of course, you can enter multiple data.

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So let's enter first name for now.

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You can add more.

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You can use break lines.

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So if you use like backslash n then this will be displayed in the email in the next line.

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So you'll have like, thank you.

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And then in the next line you'll have the name of the user.

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So you can use these backslash N's, but I'll just delete it.

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That's okay as it is now.

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So that's the email contents.

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So we have the variable, but that's just a variable.

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So we need to enter that variable somewhere.

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Let's create an email message instance using the email message class we imported up here.

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So that gets as input the subject form submission confirmation for example, that will be displayed

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as the subject of the email that the user will receive of in their email address which they enter here.

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Right.

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So that's the subject.

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Followed by the message body.

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So next, you should provide the body of the email.

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And then the receiver to a list of receivers.

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We only have one.

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So email.

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So that's this variable.

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So we get the email of the user.

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Whatever the user enters here, we grab that through this code, we store that in this variable, and

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then we get that value of that variable and we pass it here to this argument.

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So that will create an instance email message instance.

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But we need then to.

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Send out that message, that email using the send method.

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So email message dot send that should send out the email to the user.

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Right.

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But we didn't specify anything about the sender.

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Where does Django send the email from?

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Well, you should specify that in settings.py.

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So settings dot p y is inside my site, not inside job application but inside my site, settings.py.

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So Settings.py has a series of configuration elements and so you can add more configuration values here.

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In this case, that will be a series of variables.

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Email backend.

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So you see, these variables should be with capital letters and you should type them exactly as you

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see it here.

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So email underscore backend with capital letters.

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Django will look for these variables when it runs the application actually when it sends out an email.

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So you want to specify Django dot core dot mail dot back ends.smtp.email back end.

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So that's a string.

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Then you want to specify the email host.

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I'm using gmail, so that should be SMTP gmail.com.

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This is the host.

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All the Gmail server and then email ports is five eight, seven.

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Again, this is the port for Gmail email use TLS You want to specify this to true email host user sorry,

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user.

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That's your gmail account from which you want to send out emails to the users.

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So I'm using this app eight flask at gmail.com.

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And then you want to specify the email host password variable.

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So for this I have to create a new app in Gmail.

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So you want to go here, manage your Google account, go to security, you want to go here, make sure

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you have activated two step verification and then go to app passwords.

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You may be required to enter your Gmail password here.

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So the password you log in to your Gmail account.

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And then here we want to create an app password, which is different from the password you used to log

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to Gmail.

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So go to select app.

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Other pick a name, just write something Django application form for example, and press on generate

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that should give you the app password.

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So copy that.

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Go to Django and you want to paste that password in here.

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So as a string and that's about how to configure your email address, your sender email address.

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So we go back to Views.py.

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Things look good to me, so let's give it a try.

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Go to the site, reload it first, enter some data.

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Employed submit.

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Right.

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So we got this, but let's see if we actually got the email in our account.

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So app Django was the email address of the user and that's the email I received.

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So a new job application was submitted.

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Thank you.

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Audit.

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So that's corresponds to this message body here.

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Of course you can expand this message if you like.

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So as I mentioned already, you can write like Backslash N and perhaps another backslash and in here

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then followed by last name.

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So give this a try and see what you'll get.

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I'll just leave it at this point.

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I hope this was useful for you and thanks a lot for following.

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I'll see you in the next videos.