core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend

class backends.smtp.EmailBackend(host=None, port=None, username=None, password=None, use_tls=None, fail_silently=False, use_ssl=None, timeout=None, ssl_keyfile=None, ssl_certfile=None, **kwargs)

This is the default backend. Email will be sent through a SMTP server.

The value for each argument is retrieved from the matching setting if the argument is None:

• host: EMAIL_HOST
• port: EMAIL_PORT
• username: EMAIL_HOST_USER
• password: EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD
• use_tls: EMAIL_USE_TLS
• use_ssl: EMAIL_USE_SSL
• timeout: EMAIL_TIMEOUT
• ssl_keyfile: EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE
• ssl_certfile: EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE

The SMTP backend is the default configuration inherited by Django. If you want to specify it explicitly, put the following in your settings:

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

If unspecified, the default timeout will be the one provided by socket.getdefaulttimeout(), which defaults to None (no timeout).