How can I update the email address using the confirmation code in Django?

Question

I use all the functionalities of dj-rest-auth to register, log in, confirm the email address, change the password, reset the password and many more. Unfortunately, the library does not support changing the email address. I would like the authenticated user to first enter the account password and the new email address. After the successful process of authentication, I would like to send the user a specially generated confirmation code. Only when he enters it, the old email address will be changed to the new one. As far as I know, there is no such functionality in dj-rest-auth . Unfortunately, I also have not found any current solutions or libraries for this purpose anywhere. Did anyone have such a problem and could share his solution here? Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

Though i don't have any solution for what you want accurately but here is a replace. You can use django all-auth and some email backend to send an email to the new added email to confirm the new email. In the sent email, there will be a confirmation link and the user has to click that to confirm the new email. After using django all-auth you only have to add an email backend which will help in sending email. Rest will be maintained by all-auth. eg, In your settings.py you can add an SMTP email backend to send email from your selected gmail account. Add these lines of code to your settings.py;

EMAIL_BACKEND='django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_HOST_USER = DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = 'HOST_EMAIL' #HOST_EMAIL is your email from which you want to send email to the user.
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'HOST_PASSWORD' #HOST_PASSWORD is the password of the email you are using as HOST_EMAIL

But after doing all these things, to make it work locally, you need to go to your google account which you are using as HOST_EMAIL. Go to manage google account >> security >> Turn on less secure apps . Then you will be able to send email to the user. NOTE : If you have 2-factor authentication turned on for your google account, then these steps will not work. That type of account has some different setup.