I registered a domain and a private email using namecheap.com. I am trying to send an email from this private email. However, I get the error in the title.
In my settings.py, I have these settings:
EMAIL_HOST = 'mail.privateemail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = '[email protected]'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'my password'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = EMAIL_HOST_USER
And I am trying to send the email through a view:
send_mail(
'Subject here',
'Here is the message.',
'[email protected]',
['[email protected]'],
fail_silently=False,
)
However, I get this error:
SMTPException at /
STARTTLS extension not supported by server.
Any idea why? Any help is appreciated.
EDIT
After changing the EMAIL_USE_TLS to False, and also removing it to check both separately, I get this error now:
SMTP AUTH extension not supported by server.
Any idea why? Thanks!
your server mail.privateemail.com
does not know what is STARTTLS
SMTP Commnad is
this may happen in two cases:
Judging, that you are connecting to port 587 which should provide plain communication - it's either 1 or 3.
If you want this just work, remove EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
or set it to False
, otherwise - SMTP server configuration should be fixed.