[Python] Not able to get email when user submits the form

I have created contact form with react and connected it with mysql database hosted using RDS. i used django for building the database. before some days i was able to get email when i am submitting the form and the data was also been stored in the database but now when i am submitting the form i am not getting an email notification of submission but i can see the data in my database. i also tried to send test email from the console and it worked. when i changed the API from urls.py and then i submitted the form, i got the mail but when i did the submission again i did not get any mail.

this is my setting.py code

DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql',
'NAME': config('DB_NAME', default='myportfolio'),
'USER': config('DB_USER', default='root'),
'PASSWORD': config('DB_PASSWORD', default=''),
'HOST': config('DB_HOST', default=''),
'PORT': config('DB_PORT', default='3306'),
}
}

# Email backend configuration
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
EMAIL_HOST_USER = config('EMAIL_HOST_USER')
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = config('EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD')





views.py

from django.core.mail import send_mail
from django.conf import settings
from django.http import JsonResponse
from django.views.decorators.csrf import csrf_exempt
from rest_framework.parsers import JSONParser
from .models import Form
from .serializers import FormSerializer
import json


@csrf_exempt
def formApi(request, id=0):
if request.method == 'GET':
try:
if id:
form = Form.objects.get(id=id)
form_serializer = FormSerializer(form)
return JsonResponse(form_serializer.data, safe=False)
else:
forms = Form.objects.all()
forms_serializer = FormSerializer(forms, many=True)
return JsonResponse(forms_serializer.data, safe=False)
except Form.DoesNotExist:
return JsonResponse({'error': 'Form not found'}, status=404)

elif request.method == 'POST':
form_data = JSONParser().parse(request)
form_serializer = FormSerializer(data=form_data)
if form_serializer.is_valid():
form_serializer.save()
return JsonResponse({'message': 'Added Successfully'}, status=201)
return JsonResponse(form_serializer.errors, status=400)

elif request.method == 'PUT':
form_data = JSONParser().parse(request)
try:
form = Form.objects.get(id=id)
form_serializer = FormSerializer(form, data=form_data)
if form_serializer.is_valid():
form_serializer.save()
return JsonResponse({'message': 'Updated Successfully'}, status=200)
return JsonResponse(form_serializer.errors, status=400)
except Form.DoesNotExist:
return JsonResponse({'error': 'Form not found'}, status=404)

elif request.method == 'DELETE':
try:
form = Form.objects.get(id=id)
form.delete()
return JsonResponse({'message': 'Deleted Successfully'}, status=204)
except Form.DoesNotExist:
return JsonResponse({'error': 'Form not found'}, status=404)

@csrf_exempt
def form_submission_view(request):
if request.method == 'POST':
try:
data = json.loads(request.body)
name = data.get('name')
email = data.get('email')
subject = data.get('subject')
message = data.get('message')

# Debug prints

# Validate form data
if not name:
return JsonResponse({'error': 'Name is required'}, status=400)
if not email:
return JsonResponse({'error': 'Email is required'}, status=400)
if not subject:
return JsonResponse({'error': 'Subject is required'}, status=400)
if not message:
return JsonResponse({'error': 'Message is required'}, status=400)

# Save to database
Form.objects.create(name=name, email=email, subject=subject, message=message)

# Send email
send_mail(
'New Form Submission',
f'You have a new form submission:\n\nName: {name}\nEmail: {email}\nSubject: {subject}\nMessage: {message}',
settings.EMAIL_HOST_USER,
[settings.EMAIL_HOST_USER],
fail_silently=False,
)


return JsonResponse({'message': 'Form submitted successfully!'})
except Exception as e:
print(f"Error: {e}")
return JsonResponse({'error': 'Invalid data'}, status=400)
else:
return JsonResponse({'error': 'Invalid request method'}, status=405)

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