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Sending emails from Django during development without using a real SMTP server. Python comes with a very basic and integrated SMTP server. To start it just open a terminal and type: python -m smtpd -n -c DebuggingServer localhost:1025 Then configure your settings.py using the following parameters. You will see the email directly in the terminal …
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settings.py
if DEBUG:
EMAIL_HOST = 'localhost'
EMAIL_PORT = 1025
EMAIL_HOST_USER = ''
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = ''
EMAIL_USE_TLS = False
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = 'testing@example.com'
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ccll commented Oct 28, 2022 •
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Another option is to use 'inbucket' which is a fake email SMTP/POP3 server, with a Web UI to preview the emails.
Run it locally with docker-compose is super easy:

services:
  mail:
    image: inbucket/inbucket:stable
    ports:
      - 2500:2500 # SMTP
      - 1100:1100 # POP3
      - 9000:9000 # web interface

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