django-smtp-ntlm-backend

django-smtp-ntlm-backend

Django email backend supporting SMTP with NTLM authentication, e.g. for MS Outlook Exchange over SMTP

Mostly copied from

• https://www.pythondiary.com/tutorials/django-ntlm-smtp-auth.html
• piotrbulinski/django-ses-backend
• django-ses

License same as python-ntlm3

Installing

pip install django-smtp-ntlm-backend

and until https://github.com/trustrachel/python-ntlm3/pull/24 is closed

pip install git+https://github.com/shadiakiki1986/python-ntlm3.git@feature_smtp

and add the settings variables for SMTP as usual, with the username being domain\\user

Testing

pew new DJANGO_SMTP_NTLM
pip3 install -q Django==1.11
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
python3 runtests.py

Usage

In the settings.py, use

EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django_smtp_ntlm_backend.NTLMEmail'
EMAIL_HOST = "mail.server.com"
EMAIL_PORT = port # e.g. 587
EMAIL_HOST_USER = "domain\\username"
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = "password"
EMAIL_USE_TLS = False
EMAIL_USE_SSL = False
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL="Someone <[e-mail]>"

Publishing to pypi

Run

pew in DJANGO_SMTP_NTLM make release

If your username/password for pypi are not in a .pypirc file (ref), you will be prompted to type in your credentials.