How to solve Django send_mail schedule problem?

Question

I am using Pythonanywhere (PA) and like to use the PA's task scheduler (it runs every day and chacks if it is Wednesday or not) to send scheduled emails. I made a new file in my app folder called: weeklyemailmm.py. The email settings in the setting.py works with other emailing stuff on my site. What am I doing wrong?

settings.py

EMAIL_HOST = 'xxx'
EMAIL_PORT = 'xxx'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'xxx'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'xxx'
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True

I try to use the code below:

from django.core.mail import send_mail
import datetime
from django.conf import settings

settings.configure(settings, DEBUG=True)


today = datetime.date.today()
weekday = today.weekday()

subject = 'New weekly email'
message = 'Hi there!'

if (weekday == 2):
    try:
        send_mail(
        'Subject here',
        'Here is the message.',
        '[email protected]',
        ['[email protected]'],
        fail_silently=False,
        )

        print('It is Wednesday, email sent')
    except:
        print('It is not Wednesday')
else:
    print('Email does not sent')

On this way I always get It is not Wednesday.

If I delete the try-except part and outdent it says:

RecursionError: maximum recursion depth exceeded while calling a Python object

If I delete the settings.configure(settings, DEBUG=True) that could be possibly wrong it say:

django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Requested setting EMAIL_BACKEND, but settings are not configured. You must either define the environment variable DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE or call settings.configure() before accessing settings.

Traceback

    PSA/firm/weeklyemailmm.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/ruszakmiklos/Documents/GitHub/MPSA/firm/weeklyemailmm.py", line 23, in <module>
    send_mail(
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/core/mail/__init__.py", line 52, in send_mail
    connection = connection or get_connection(
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/core/mail/__init__.py", line 34, in get_connection
    klass = import_string(backend or settings.EMAIL_BACKEND)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 84, in __getattr__
    val = getattr(self._wrapped, name)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 249, in __getattr__
    return getattr(self.default_settings, name)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 84, in __getattr__
    val = getattr(self._wrapped, name)...

And line 84 and 249 so on.

Answer 1

Using EmailMessage :

from django.core.mail import EmailMessage


today = datetime.date.today()
weekday = today.weekday()

subject = 'New weekly email'
message = 'Hi there!'

if (weekday == 2):
    try:
        msg = EmailMessage(subject, message, '[email protected]',
    ['[email protected]'])
        msg.send()
    
        print('It is Wednesday, email sent')
    except:
        print('It is not Wednesday')
else:
    print('Email does not sent')