Sending email verfications works locally but doesnt work on heroku in my django app-CodePudding

i am using an email verfication using links once the user register an email is sent to the user to activate their account this works fine in my local app when i run it but after i deployed the app to heroku even tho i set the config vars to be the same as my enviroment vars i still get this error

(530, b'5.7.0 Authentication Required. Learn more at\n5.7.0 https://support.google.com/mail/?p=WantAuthError t19-20020a05622a181300b0031e9b5ead3asm2297749qtc.76 - gsmtp', '[email protected]')

this error indicates that for some reason heroku cant access the gmail even tho i set an app password for it and this is my settings for heroku

DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = os.environ.get('EMAIL_FROM_USER')
EMAIL_FROM_USER = os.environ.get('EMAIL_FROM_USER')
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = os.environ.get('EMAIL_FROM_USER')
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = os.environ.get('EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD')
EMAIL_USE_SSL = True
EMAIL_PORT = 465
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'

# Static files (CSS, JavaScript, Images)
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/howto/static-files/

STATIC_URL = '/static/'

# Default primary key field type
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/ref/settings/#default-auto-field

DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD = 'django.db.models.BigAutoField'

CRISPY_TEMPLATE_PACK = 'bootstrap5'




# heruko settings
cwd = os.getcwd()

if cwd == '/app' or cwd[:4] =='/tmp':
    import dj_database_url
    DATABASES = {
        'default' : dj_database_url.config(default='postgres://localhost')
    }

    # honor the 'X-Forward-Proto' header for request.is_secure()
    SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARD_PROTO', 'https')
    DEBUG = False   
    #static asset configuration
    BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
    STATIC_ROOT = 'staticfiles'
    STATICFILES_DIR = (os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static'))

i am at my wits end tried many things and nothing worked out even chaning the email port number so any help will be appriciated

CodePudding user response：

This is the problem with gmail service, which doesn't allow cloud services to use it. Try other mail service.