Guide to enable django email service in edX locally

EDX_ DJANGO_EMAIL_CONFIGURATIONS.md

To Enable Django Email Service Locally:

• First you need valid Gmail Account
• edX installed on your local system in docker

Steps to Follow:

1. Go to devstack.py located at lms/env/ and cms/env.
2. Find the EMAIL_BACKEND flag and change it to 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend
3. Add few more flags:

EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_PORT = '587'
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'your email address'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'your password'

4. (Optional) If you are using EDX_ACE you need to change some flags in lms.env.json and cms.env.json:

"ACE_CHANNEL_TRANSACTIONAL_EMAIL": "django_email",
"ACE_CHANNEL_DEFAULT_EMAIL": "django_email",
"ACE_ENABLED_CHANNELS": [
    "django_email"
],

If above changes doesn't work then change in following file:

edx-platform/openedx/core/djangoapps/ace_common/settings/devstack.py

"""
Settings for edX ACE on devstack.
"""

from openedx.core.djangoapps.ace_common.settings import common


def plugin_settings(settings):
    """
    Override common settings and use `file_email` for better debugging.
    """
    common.plugin_settings(settings)

    settings.ACE_ENABLED_CHANNELS = [
        'django_email'
    ]

    settings.ACE_CHANNEL_DEFAULT_EMAIL = 'django_email'
    settings.ACE_CHANNEL_TRANSACTIONAL_EMAIL = 'django_email'

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