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# EMAIL Server config
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_PORT = '587'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'example@gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'somepassword'
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = 'example@gmail.com'

EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'

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class BlockAdmin(NoLookupsForeignKeyAutocompleteAdmin, admin.ModelAdmin):
    …
    related_search_fields = {
        'city' : ('name', 'state__name', ),
    }

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from django.contrib import admin
from django.contrib.auth.models import Group
from django.contrib.auth.admin import UserAdmin

class UserProfileAdmin(UserAdmin):
    form     = UserChangeForm
    add_form = UserCreationForm

    list_display = ('email', 'mobile', 'is_superuser')
    list_filter  = ('is_superuser',)

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import pytz
from django.utils import timezone

....
timezone.activate(pytz.timezone(user_time_zone))

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1. Change your database RDS instance security group to allow your machine to access it.
   • Add your ip to the security group to acces the instance via Postgres.
2. Make a copy of the database using pg_dump
   • $ pg_dump -h <public dns> -U <my username> -f <name of dump file .sql> <name of my database>
   • you will be asked for postgressql password.
   • a dump file(.sql) will be created
3. Restore that dump file to your local database.
   • but you might need to drop the database and create it first
   • $ psql -U <postgresql username> -d <database name> -f <dump file that you want to restore>

• the database is restored