Django snippets: Django Registration with GMail account

Django Registration with GMail account

  if send_email:            
      current_domain = Site.objects.get_current().domain
      subject = "Activate your new account at %s" %  current_domain
      message_template = loader.get_template('registration/activation_email.txt')
      message_context = Context({ 'site_url': 'http://%s/' % current_domain,
                                        'activation_key': activation_key,
                                        'expiration_days': settings.ACCOUNT_ACTIVATION_DAYS })
        message = message_template.render(message_context)
        ga = libgmail.GmailAccount(settings.GMAIL_USERNAME, settings.GMAIL_PASSWORD)
        ga.login()
        msg = libgmail.GmailComposedMessage(to=new_user.email, subject=subject, body=message)
        ga.sendMessage(msg)

This code works with Django-registration app found here: http://code.google.com/p/django-registration/ If you plan to use this django-registrtion code in your website to allow user registration but do not run your own email server,this snippet can be handy.

It uses gmail server to send out email. You have to install libgmail module first.

Add two lines to your settings.py GMAIL_USERNAME = 'yourname@gmail.com' GMAIL_PASSWORD = 'your_password' Change models.py - create_inactive_user(...) as given above

Author:: btbytes
Posted:: March 29, 2007
Language:: Python
Tags:: django-registration email gmail registration
Score:: 7 (after 9 ratings)

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sleepyguitar (on October 24, 2007):

some problems

NameError at /accounts/register/ global name 'activation_key' is not defined

Request Method: POST Request URL: http://www.atschool.com.cn:8000/accounts/register/ Exception Type: NameError Exception Value: global name 'activation_key' is not defined Exception Location: C:Python25libsite-packagesregistrationmodels.py in create_inactive_user, line 95 Python Executable: C:Python25python.exe Python Version: 2.5.1

oliver.andrich (on January 22, 2008):

Why is it neccessary to use libgmail? You could just activate the POP access to the gmail account and use the official SMTP server of googlemail.

Look at: http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/email/

woot4moo (on April 27, 2008):

I am going to save everyone a lot of heart ache here. Add these lines and that error will go away:

in create_inactive_user(...)

salt = sha.new(str(random.random())).hexdigest()[:5] activation_key = sha.new(salt+new_user.username).hexdigest()

and change profile_callback to this: if profile_callback is not None: profile_callback(user=new_user, activiation_key=activiation_key)

asinox (on September 3, 2009):

oliver.andrich is right.

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