i am trying to create a form in web2py which sends message to an email account on submission
mainly i used SQLFORM.factory to create the form then i used gluon.tools import mail to import the send email functionality. i have set up everything i can think of but still on running this code in web2py it gives out that "fail to send email sorry".
from gluon.tools import Mail
mail = Mail()
mail.settings.server = 'smtp@gmail.com:465'
mail.settings.sender = 'myemail@gmail.com'
mail.settings.login = 'myemail@gmail.com:secret'
def index():
form = SQLFORM.factory(
Field('name', requires=IS_NOT_EMPTY()),
Field('email', requires =[ IS_EMAIL(error_message='invalid email!'), IS_NOT_EMPTY() ]),
Field('subject', requires=IS_NOT_EMPTY()),
Field('message', requires=IS_NOT_EMPTY(), type='text')
)
if form.process().accepted:
session.name = form.vars.name
session.email = form.vars.email
session.subject = form.vars.subject
session.message = form.vars.message
x = mail.send(to=['otheremail@yahoo.com'],
subject='project minerva',
message= "Hello this is an email send from minerva.com from contact us form.\nName:"+ session.name+" \nEmail : " + session.email +"\nSubject : "+session.subject +"\nMessage : "+session.message+ ".\n "
)
if x == True:
response.flash = 'email sent sucessfully.'
else:
response.flash = 'fail to send email sorry!'
#response.flash = 'form accepted.'
elif form.errors:
response.flash='form has errors.'
return dict(form=form)
Before using mail.send() I would recommend to test if mail is correctly set :
if form.process().accepted:
session.name = form.vars.name
session.email = form.vars.email
session.subject = form.vars.subject
session.message = form.vars.message
if mail:
if mail.send(to=['otheremail@yahoo.com'],
subject='project minerva',
message= "Hello this is an email send from minerva.com from contact us form.\nName:"+ session.name+" \nEmail : " + session.email +"\nSubject : "+session.subject +"\nMessage : "+session.message+ ".\n "
):
response.flash = 'email sent sucessfully.'
else:
response.flash = 'fail to send email sorry!'
else:
response.flash = 'Unable to send the email : email parameters not defined'
elif form.errors:
response.flash='form has errors.'
Then try to change :
mail.settings.server = 'smtp@gmail.com:465'
in
mail.settings.server = 'smtp.gmail.com:465'
or
mail.settings.server = 'smtp.gmail.com:587'
All the issues I have experienced with sending email ("unable to send email") from Web2Py via Gmail, have been caused by the 2-steps authentication which was enabled on my gmail account.
In order for Web2Py to be able to send email via gmail:
- Read Google instructions at https://support.google.com/mail/answer/1173270?hl=en
- When logged in with your gmail account, go to https://security.google.com/settings/security/apppasswords?pli=1 and enter the once-only pwd Google provides with the app you intend to allow use the gmail services (I have mentioned "Web2Py")
- In the model where the mail services are defined - use exactly what's recommended in the W2P book with the new pwd mentioned above - and it works !
NeoToren
I got the email to work with gmail with the modification of this setting:
mail.settings.server = 'smtp.gmail.com'
For anyone else experiencing issues discovering their mail setting, here's a brute force approach:
Also available at this gist.
Code:
'''
Place this in a controller and call it, either by url or directly from code.
An email(or multiple) with the correct settings will be sent to the
test address.
'''
def test_mail():
bases = ['yourdomain.com', 'yourhosting.company.net']
prefixes = ['smtp.', 'mail.', '']
ports = [':25' ':465', ':993', ':587', '']
sender = 'someone@yourdomain.com'
login = 'someone@yourdomain.com:password'
send_test_to = 'probably.you@gmail.com'
count = 0
mail.settings.tls = True #Here so you can set to False if things fail?
for base in bases:
for prefix in prefixes:
for port in ports:
server = '{0}{1}{2}'.format(prefix, base, port)
msg = 'server: {0} login: {1}'.format(server, login)
# So you can correlate with error codes. Note some servers don't like print!
print msg
mail.settings.server = server
mail.settings.sender = sender
mail.settings.login = login
mail.send(to=[send_test_to],
subject='hello',
reply_to='us@example.com',
message=msg
)
count += 1
return dict(message="tried {0} combinations".format(count))