Shami's Blog

Lately I’ve been tinkering with Open edX at work for a project we’re working on. The customer needed a specific workflow which required emails and all the parameters I found didn’t help. But finally I found the solution here

All I needed to do was add the following to edx-platform/lms/envs/devstack.py, this has to be added below the original EMAIL_BACKEND line

EMAIL_BACKEND='django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
EMAIL_HOST='MAIL_SERVER'
EMAIL_PORT=PORT
EMAIL_USE_TLS=TLS
EMAIL_HOST_USER='USERNAME'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD='PASSWORD'

Restart LMS and you should be ready to go