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Python Django Forms Forms Handling a Form in a View

Andrew Voitsekhovskyy
Andrew Voitsekhovskyy
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Posted by Andrew Voitsekhovskyy
Andrew Voitsekhovskyy
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How to send an email

Hi everybody. In this video tutorial email is not sent anywhere and only stored in the folder. So how to make it sent to my email address.

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Kenneth Love
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Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Kenneth Love
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher

We used the text email backend, which is what stores it in a text file. To actually send an email, you'd need to use the SMTP backend (which is the default) and set up the server details. The docs have all of the details.