to send email with different 'from' email address using gmail smtp server in django

Question

I want to send an email to users with different from field values using smtp gmail server from the django app . I am able to send the mail successfully to users but the from field does not take the value that I provide in send_mail() but instead takes the EMAIL_HOST_USER value defined in settings.py

From field value should take any domain email address ie

  a mail from: xyz@yahoo.co.in or .com 
     or  from: abc@hotmail.com 
     or  so on 

How can I achieve this behavior? Please help. I am new to using django and email functionality.

Answer 1

You cannot forge an email using Google's SMTP server. They will keep on using the current user's information (the login credentials you supplied). If you want to "change"/forge the email header, use your own email server/SMTP