Configuration of SMTP Email Service is required about autograder HOT 12 CLOSED

I haven't had any issues with local mail sending but I guess it can't hurt to use Mailgun. At the very least, we'll solve the issue of mail going to the spam folder with this. Let's keep it.

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Can we make it so that signup requires email verification? (To ensure that if the student registers with an ID, they actually own that email.)

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@bilalzaib

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Done with signup email verification but didn't push changes

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Create a branch of that code, push that branch and start a pull request.

git add .
git commit -m "Changes"
git checkout -b SignupVerification
git push origin SignupVerification

Logon to GitHub and start a pull request.

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SMTP settings are added (Mailgun). #21

You will have to install following modules pip install django-anymail[mailgun]

"From" section of email for "Password Reset" and "Sign Up Invitation" will be [email protected]. It is limited by Mailgun. However it can be changed but that new email need to be enabled from Mailgun online account settings.

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Umm.. why are we using mailgun? What's wrong with local SMTP (other than the fact that it will most probably land in their SPAM folder ... but that can be taken care of easily). Not saying we shouldn't do this. Just asking.

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In most cases local SMTP doesn't work, you can take example of my mine. If we move to web hosting provider they have switched SMTP to paid option for example GoDaddy.

However we can use Google and Outlook SMTP server for delivering emails. I have been using Mandrill and Mailgun for quiet long a ago that is why I selected this service.

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Tried signing up with user's email recluze on the gmail domain... Got this error. I suppose we can go ahead and remove the email verification for now so that students can start using the system until we figure out how to handle verification.

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#30

Added Outlook SMTP.

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Works. Please send me the updated password through email and close this out please. Thanks.

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Closing this issue... Sent the new settings.py file to your email address.

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