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I am trying to figure out how to setup email notification. I see settings file has following 
 
#outgoing mail server settings
SERVER_EMAIL = ''
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = ''
EMAIL_HOST_USER = ''
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = ''
EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX = ''
EMAIL_HOST=''
EMAIL_PORT=''
EMAIL_USE_TLS=False
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'

 
lets say I want to use a gmail account to handle email notification that get send out from my system (Just like how askbot does) How should I set this up. 
 
 
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Try using this settings:
 
SERVER_EMAIL = 'youremail@gmail.com'
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = 'youremail@gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'youremail@gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'yourpassword'
EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX = ''
EMAIL_HOST='smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_PORT='587' #try also 645
EMAIL_USE_TLS=True
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'

 
After that, restart apache.
 
I must say that it didn't worked for me, because Gmail sees the login from my server as suspicious and blocks it.
 
To test, go to /settings/EMAIL/ and put your email address. Then go to the feedback form and send a test message, if you receive the email, it's working, if not, check the logs in /var/log/apache2/error.log
 
 
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It didn't work for me either, I think I might have to dig into logs.
 
 
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Right, all those parameters just need to match the settings of your mail server, which can be running on a localhost, may or may not have TLS and a password or even a user set up to log in.
 
 
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