I am trying to send an email with a Django background task. But the problem is that when I run python manage.py process_tasks nothing happens. I am just stuck in part where it looks like it is running but nothing is returned to the terminal. There was a few times where in fact it did run but it took very long. logger = logging.getLogger(__name__) @background(schedule=1) def notify_user(): logger.info("Task started") smtp_server = "smtp.gmail.com" port = 465 sender = "email" password = "password" context = ssl.create_default_context() with smtplib.SMTP_SSL(smtp_server, port, context=context) as server: server.login(sender, password) print("Yes") user = get_user_model() I have tried changing the intervals in between runs to 60(seconds) but it wasn't working so I changed it to 1(second) to see if it would work. But alas it doesn't Continue reading...
