I've made a page that is supposed to send an email to the to_email when the submit button is clicked inside of a form. I disabled captchas using this link as I was advised in this video playlist that I've been following for tutorials but for some reason, I'm getting an authentication error. I found an answer to a similar problem here but it involved using the string version of the HOST_password in the settings.py file, which I am already doing. The emails and passwords that I am using are correct, so what could be causing the problem?
Below is the traceback log from the page:
Django Version: 1.8.6 Python Version: 2.7.6 Installed Applications: ('django.contrib.admin', 'django.contrib.auth', 'django.contrib.contenttypes', 'django.contrib.sessions', 'django.contrib.messages', 'django.contrib.staticfiles', 'artist_tracker') Installed Middleware: ('django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware', 'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware', 'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware', 'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware', 'django.contrib.auth.middleware.SessionAuthenticationMiddleware', 'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware', 'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware', 'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware') Traceback: File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py" in get_response 132. response = wrapped_callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs) File "/var/www/students/test/bandsync/src/bandsync-repo/artist_tracker/views.py" in contact 58. send_mail(subject, contact_message, from_email, to_email, fail_silently =False) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/mail/__init__.py" in send_mail 62. return mail.send() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/mail/message.py" in send 303. return self.get_connection(fail_silently).send_messages([self]) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/mail/backends/smtp.py" in send_messages 107. sent = self._send(message) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/mail/backends/smtp.py" in _send 123. self.connection.sendmail(from_email, recipients, message.as_bytes(linesep='\r\n')) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/smtplib.py" in sendmail 731. raise SMTPSenderRefused(code, resp, from_addr) Exception Type: SMTPSenderRefused at /contact/ Exception Value: (530, '5.5.1 Authentication Required. Learn more at\n5.5.1 l85sm10088128qhl.3 - gsmtp', u'webmaster@localhost') 1 Answer
You have misspelled one of your settings. You have:
EMAIL_HOSTS_USER = '<your email>' It should be:
EMAIL_HOST_USER = '<your email>' 
