Password Reset View not sending Email (Django 1.11)

Question

i am using Django Build in

PasswordResetView class.

i am using Django File backend in settings. i tried to reset password of an existing account and django returns a success but still no email is sent. Here is code for reference:

settings.py

 EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.filebased.EmailBackend'
EMAIL_FILE_PATH = os.path.join(BASE_DIR,'sent_emails')

views.py

class MyPasswordReset(PasswordResetView):
email_template_name = 'email/forgot_password.html'
form_class = ForgotPassword
from_email = '[email protected]'
success_url = reverse_lazy('users:password_reset_done')

form.py

class ForgotPassword(PasswordResetForm):
email = forms.EmailField(widget=forms.EmailInput(attrs=
                            {'class': 'form-control', 'title': 'Enter Email', 'placeholder': 'Email'}),
                         max_length=50, label=False, required=True,
                         )

Password Reset Email Template

email/forgot_password.html

you forgot your password!! Sample Email

Code for Complete reference: https://github.com/deepak1725/basicCrud/tree/dk-signup/users

@Exprator all i did in settings.py is as i mentioned. what else needed..? — Deepak Sharma
an email server to send the emails, which you need to mention the settings.py — Exprator
@Exprator i am at local.. using file backend. Expected behavior is make *.log files in my folder sent_emails with email content in it. — Deepak Sharma

Deepak Sharma Deepak Sharma · Accepted Answer · 2017-07-24T15:17:07

After deep analysing i figured out, i was storing email in username's field in auth User table.

Hence on using built in reset password view , it queries by database on email field, and hence the email field is found empty. So, the result returned is null and therefore no email sending is processed.

Password Reset View not sending Email (Django 1.11)

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