email_verification is a django package that verifies a user's email on registration.
- An email is sent to registered users to verify their email before login.
- All users that are not verified after 24hrs will be automatically deleted from the database.
pip install django-email-certify
After a successful installation, you will need to setup your django project to use the package. Follow the steps below to do that.
First, we need to add email_verification to our project's INSTALLED_APPS
# settings.py
INSTALLED_APPS = [
# ...other apps
"email_verification.apps.EmailVerificationConfig",
]
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
EMAIL_HOST = "smtp.gmail.com"
EMAIL_PORT = 465
EMAIL_HOST_USER = "your_email_user"
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = "your_email_password"
EMAIL_USE_SSL = True
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = "Default<[email protected]>"
LOGIN_URL = "" # ensure to set this
Next, we will add the url configuration for our package.
# urls.py
urlpatterns = [
# ...other urls
path("verify-email/", include("email_verification.urls")),
]
python manage.py migrate
Next, we'll need to handle inactive user deletion for our project. To do that, we will be adding some configuration to our wsgi.py file
# wsgi.py
from threading import Thread
application = get_wsgi_application() # already in code
# this should come after the get_wsgi_application() object
from email_verification.views import delete_inactive_users
t = Thread(target=delete_inactive_users)
t.start()
That's all for the configurations. Next up, we will be using verifying our users using a django form
# views.py
from email_verification.views import VerifyEmail
def signup(request):
form = RegisterForm() # create your form class
if request.method == "POST":
form = RegisterForm(request.POST)
if form.is_valid():
VerifyEmail(request, form)
return redirect("redirect_url")
return render(request, "register.html", {"form": form})