Enable Django app with emailing (send_mail + gmail)

settings.py

# Email/gmail configuration
# console.EmailBackend is to test the email on console in dev mode
# comment next line to spit emails on console for testing (of course comment the line next to it)
# EMAIL_BACKEND='django.core.mail.backends.console.EmailBackend'

# smtp.EmailBackend is for the production server
EMAIL_BACKEND='django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
EMAIL_HOST='smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_PORT=587
EMAIL_HOST_USER='[email protected]'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD='password'
EMAIL_USE_TLS=True

views.py

# send an email
recipient_list = ["[email protected]", "[email protected]"]

email_message = "A new consultant got registered into vidhaikalam. First Name: %s <p> Last Name: %s \n Id: %s" % \
          (consultant_obj.firstname, consultant_obj.lastname, consultant_obj.id)
send_mail("New consultant registered!", email_message, settings.DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL,
          recipient_list, fail_silently=False, auth_user=None,
          auth_password=None, connection=None, html_message=None)