django_ses_email_backend_configuration_with_send_mail.py

1# settings.py
2# 1. Add django_ses to your INSTALLED_APPS
3INSTALLED_APPS = [
4    # ...
5    'django_ses',
6]
7
8# 2. Configure the email backend
9EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django_ses.SESBackend'
10
11# 3. Provide your AWS credentials (or use IAM roles/environment variables)
12AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID = 'YOUR-ACCESS-KEY-ID'
13AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY = 'YOUR-SECRET-ACCESS-KEY'
14
15# 4. (Optional) Specify the AWS region
16AWS_SES_REGION_NAME = 'us-east-1'
17AWS_SES_REGION_ENDPOINT = 'email.us-east-1.amazonaws.com'
18
19
20# Usage in your views or scripts
21from django.core.mail import send_mail
22
23def send_test_email():
24    send_mail(
25        'Subject here',
26        'Here is the message.',
27        'from@example.com',
28        ['to@example.com'],
29        fail_silently=False,
30    )