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Using Outlook SMTP server to send email through a contact form but unable to send as I need the server to be able to accept multiple "From" addresses

Currently using Django as the chosen framework for my project and I have implemented a contact form and my main goal is for users to complete the contact form and the admin of the site (me) get an email, which shows me the details of their enquiry.
I am trying to use the Outlook SMTP server and these are my current settings in settings.py:
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.office365.com'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
EMAIL_HOST_USER = '<my_emailAddress>'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = os.environ.get('OUTLOOK_PASSWORD')
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = '<my_emailAddress>'
However, whenever I complete the form and send the request to the server I am receiving the following error code:
(554, b'5.2.252 SendAsDenied; <my_emailAddress> not allowed to send as <inputtedForm_emailAddress>; STOREDRV.Submission.Exception:
SendAsDeniedException.MapiExceptionSendAsDenied; Failed to process message due to a permanent exception with message Cannot submit message.
I am looking for some help surrounding this issue - it would be greatly appreciated.

Recently I had same issue with Outlook.
Looks like Outlook is not accepting anymore sending emails from unsecure apps.
Your next alternative is to use gmail but first enable unsecure apps in gmail setting.
Everything should be the same, change only smtp to
​EMAIL_HOST=smtp.gmail.com

Django mail_admins vs send_mail

I can get my django application to properly report server errors by email using the obvious settings :
DEBUG = False
ADMINS = (('name','email'),)
MANAGERS = (('name','email'),)
EMAIL_HOST = 'ip address'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'user'
EMAIL_PORT = 25
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'pwd'
SERVER_EMAIL = 'server-email'
Yet for some reason, when I try to use send_email() it returns either Authentication errors if I try without TLS, or "You don't have permission to send as this sender" if I do use TLS. I can't understand why error reporting works, and send_email doesn't... it uses the same settings by default.
Any suggestions ?

There are two settings which affect the 'from' email address for different types of emails.
SERVER_EMAIL - used for sending error emails to ADMINS and MANAGERS.
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL - used for sending regular emails
It looks as if you have already set SERVER_EMAIL, so make sure you have set DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL as well.

How to send email as alias using Django

Background:
I have a site I'm building using Django and I've encountered the following conundrum. I have a backend email that we will call luckyducky#gmail.com. Now I also have a domain email that forwards directly to luckyduck#gmail.com which is called support#luckyducky.com.
Currently I have my Django Email setting set up as follows:
EMAIL_HOST_USER="luckyducky#gmail.com"
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD="password"
This works fine, but I want to have the email sent out from 'support#luckyducky.com'.
Note:
Including the Python community as a whole as maybe the issue can be resolved outside of Django mail wrapper functions.
Question:
How can I set up this redirection? Meaning, how can I send out emails under the alias 'support#luckyducky.com' when my true email configured in the Django backend is luckyducky#gmail.com ?

settings.EMAIL_HOST_USER is only used to authenticate with the SMTP server. The third argument of django.core.mail.send_mail() is the From: address.

Taken from django documentation
In two lines:
from django.core.mail import send_mail
send_mail('Subject here', 'Here is the message.', 'support#luckyducky.com',
['to#example.com'], fail_silently=False)
Mail is sent using the SMTP host and port specified in the EMAIL_HOST and EMAIL_PORT settings. The EMAIL_HOST_USER and EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD settings, if set, are used to authenticate to the SMTP server, and the EMAIL_USE_TLS and EMAIL_USE_SSL settings control whether a secure connection is used.

send mail with Django using EmailMessage class

I am trying to send an email using the EmailMessage class provided by Django. My code in views.py is as follows:
email = EmailMessage('Hello', 'My_message ', 'my#mail.com', [email])
email.attach_file('file.jpg')
email.send()
I get an [Errno 111] Connection refused. What could be the source of this error? Are there any additional settings that I should be aware of when trying to send an email with an attachment in Django? Thanks a lot
[edit] I forgot to mention i am working on the development server provided by django

most likely, Django can't connect to a mail server on localhost. If you look here, look for EMAIL_HOST, EMAIL_HOST_USER and EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD

The easiest way to set the email for testing purposes in Django would be to set it to a gmail account with SMTP.
In settings.py just add this.
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'user#gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'your-password'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
For production you will need some sort of mail server installed on your server, or connect to a remote mail server.
Hope this helps in some way.

Like Chris Curvey mentioned, you'll have to configure your mail settings as is described here: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/settings/?from=olddocs#available-settings
Which mail host to use depends on your connection. If you are at work, then there should be a system administrator who can tell you which information to use. If you're at your own home, then your ISP probably has a mail server that you're supposed to use.
If you have a functioning email client on your computer, then you should also be able to see the proper settings in "Outgoing Mail" or something to that effect.

Is it possible to send an email in django through a microsoft exchange server?

If yes, how? I was not able to find anything on google.

In case someone is still in need of some help here... It took me a while to figure out what the EMAIL_HOST setting needed to be for an out-of-the-box MSE configuration.
EMAIL_HOST = 'outlook.office365.com'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = user#yourdomain.com
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = Y0urP#$$w0rd
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = EMAIL_HOST_USER
The above configuration is working fine for me using Django's default email backend.

SMTP on Exchange shouldn't be any different to any other mail server. You may hit issues of anonymous access is not allowed for relaying. If only integrated authentication is enabled, have a look at;
SMTP through Exchange using Integrated Windows Authentication (NTLM) using Python
Also ensure the IP of the Django box is added to the list of relay IPs in Exchange (if enabled).