Here are the possible things that may cause my problem.
- using django's live server instead of a domain.
I know in gmail you can't no longer use less secure apps. I enabled two factor authentication and created an app with a unique password. This is what i used for the EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD.
For gmail I used this in my settings.py file
DEBUG = True
EMAIL_BACKEND = "django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend"
EMAIL_HOST = "smtp.gmail.com"
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
EMAIL_HOST_USER = "my email address"
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = "my app password"
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = "my email address"
Then tried outlook with the same config except for
EMAIL_HOST = "smtp-mail.outlook.com"
EMAIL_HOST_USER = "outlook email address"
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = "outlook email address password"
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = "outlook email address"
i never had a single success with any of them as I couldn't send out a single mail. Checked my spam folder, inbox folder and all mail folder of the mail recipient.