django email username and password
<p>I'm implementing a contact form for one of my sites. One thing I'm not sure I understand completely is why you need <code>EMAIL_HOST_USER</code> and <code>EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD</code>.</p>

<p>The user would only need to provide his/her email address, so what is the <code>EMAIL_HOST_USER</code> referring to then and why would I need to specify an email and password?</p>

<p>EDIT:
I'm using webfaction as my mail server</p>

<p>You set <strong>EMAIL_HOST</strong> and <strong>EMAIL_PORT</strong> just for sending emails to your user.</p>

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  <p>Mail is sent using the SMTP host and port specified in the EMAIL_HOST and EMAIL_PORT settings. The EMAIL_HOST_USER and EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD settings, if set, are used to authenticate to the SMTP server, and the EMAIL_USE_TLS and EMAIL_USE_SSL settings control whether a secure connection is used.</p>
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