hook up email provider

[bbelderbos]

on heroku you can provision sendgrid, then in settings.py

now: EMAIL_BACKEND = "django.core.mail.backends.console.EmailBackend"

change to:

if DEBUG:
    EMAIL_BACKEND = "django.core.mail.backends.console.EmailBackend"
else:
    EMAIL_BACKEND = "django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend"

    # sentry != local = in prod
    import sentry_sdk
    from sentry_sdk.integrations.django import DjangoIntegration

    sentry_sdk.init(
        dsn=os.environ.get("SENTRY_DSN"), integrations=[DjangoIntegration()]
    )

SENDGRID_API_KEY = config("SENDGRID_API_KEY")

1. only do console backend for email if debug = local
2. sentry stuff, you have already right -> TODO: set SENTRY_DSN in heroku gui
3. SENDGRID_API_KEY -> generate this via sendgrid (go in via provisioned app on heroku)

[jwjacobson]

Sendgrid won't let me create an account (perhaps because I don't have a company?) Am looking into alternatives, maybe Mailtrap https://elements.heroku.com/addons/mailtrap

[bbelderbos]

Did you provision it through the heroku gui? Last time that worked for me.

[jwjacobson]

Yes, it was basically instant between provisioning the service and getting the email that my account was denied. I then tried to sign up manually and the same thing happened, now my email address is on file with them. I'm setting up mailtrap now...