Amazon SES SMTP with Django

Aug, 2022 Update with Django-3.2.4:

No libraries needed such as django-ses or django-amazon-ses !!

EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
EMAIL_HOST = 'email-smtp.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'my_smtp_username'      # Must create SMTP Credentials
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'my_smtp_password'  # Must create SMTP Credentials
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = '[email protected]' # If don't need, comment out!!

I added DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL.

DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = '[email protected]'

If you don't need it, comment it out!!

# DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = '[email protected]'

Moreover, for DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL, put one verified domain or email address whether or not your account is in the sandbox.

So for the verified domain sender.com below,

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Three of them below are valid: (Use only one of three)

DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = '[email protected]' # OR
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = '[email protected]' # OR
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = '[email protected]'

But these two below are not valid: (These give you error)

*The format must be [email protected] !!

DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = 'sender.com' 
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = '@sender.com'

Then, for the verified 2 email addresses below,

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Just use only one of two below:

DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = '[email protected]' # OR
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = '[email protected]'

Finally, for EMAIL_HOST_USER and EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD, you must create SMTP Credentials.

Choose SMTP Settings:

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Press Create My SMTP Credentials Button:

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Given SMTP Credentials:

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Then, put the SMTP Credentials as below:

EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'AKIAWP3TMGZN4OZH5H37'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'BB6dufiw96jJHUTrowXI8R4gcyOI+t1+Skbi51cdHYhV'

*(I've already deleted these SMTP Credentials)


Since Django 1.7, you can send email with SSL natively without third party library.

EMAIL_USE_SSL = True

Docs


I found a much simpler solution that would allow me to use Django's built-in mail classes so I can still get my admin error email reports etc.

Thanks to this little beauty I was able to use SES SMTP without any problems:

https://github.com/bancek/django-smtp-ssl

Download and install (python setup.py install)

Then just change your settings to use this new email backend:

EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django_smtp_ssl.SSLEmailBackend'

The rest of the settings are as per normal:

EMAIL_HOST = 'email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com'
EMAIL_PORT = 465
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'my_smtp_username'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'my_smtp_password'
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True

2019 Update: Django 2.2.1

EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'

EMAIL_HOST = 'email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'my_smtp_username'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'my_smtp_password'
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True

No library needed.

Credits : https://stackoverflow.com/a/32476190/5647272

Reference : https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/topics/email/

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Python

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