diff --git a/smash/smash/settings.py b/smash/smash/settings.py
index fd634ff83188a8b9950da2f5b35871f8e9eaaf68..9b80aea3969b577d7140c7ba823e080b9c2a1da6 100644
--- a/smash/smash/settings.py
+++ b/smash/smash/settings.py
@@ -22,6 +22,15 @@ ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['prc.parkinson.lu', 'localhost']
 
 DEBUG = True
 
+EMAIL_USE_TLS = False
+EMAIL_USE_SSL = False
+EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp-3.uni.lu'
+EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'piotr.gawron@uni.lu'
+EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = '123qweasdzxc'
+EMAIL_PORT = 25
+EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
+DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = 'piotr.gawron@uni.lu'
+
 # Application definition
 
 INSTALLED_APPS = [
diff --git a/smash/web/email.py b/smash/web/email.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e9a0722a533b5d0d7f720d4cfd9dce2fb64f8aec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/smash/web/email.py
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+# coding=utf-8
+
+from django.core import mail
+from django.core.mail.backends.smtp import EmailBackend
+
+from web.models import ConfigurationItem
+from web.models.constants import EMAIL_HOST_CONFIGURATION_TYPE, EMAIL_PASSWORD_CONFIGURATION_TYPE, \
+    EMAIL_PORT_CONFIGURATION_TYPE, EMAIL_USER_CONFIGURATION_TYPE, EMAIL_CONFIGURATION_TYPE
+
+
+class EmailSender(object):
+    def __init__(self):
+        host = ConfigurationItem.objects.get(type=EMAIL_HOST_CONFIGURATION_TYPE).value
+        port = ConfigurationItem.objects.get(type=EMAIL_PORT_CONFIGURATION_TYPE).value
+        user = ConfigurationItem.objects.get(type=EMAIL_USER_CONFIGURATION_TYPE).value
+        password = ConfigurationItem.objects.get(type=EMAIL_PASSWORD_CONFIGURATION_TYPE).value
+        self.backend = EmailBackend(host=host, port=port, username=user, password=password, use_tls=False,
+                                    use_ssl=False)
+        # self.connection = mail.get_connection(backend=self.backend)
+        self.connection = mail.get_connection()
+
+    def send_email(self, subject, body, to):
+        email_from = ConfigurationItem.objects.get(type=EMAIL_CONFIGURATION_TYPE).value
+        print email_from
+        print subject
+        print body
+        print to
+        mail.EmailMessage(subject, body, email_from, [to], connection=self.connection).send(fail_silently=False)
diff --git a/smash/web/tests/test_email.py b/smash/web/tests/test_email.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..29102ca7b8bf89d5a7b9f94379090a4efc8ca241
--- /dev/null
+++ b/smash/web/tests/test_email.py
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+# coding=utf-8
+
+from django.test import TestCase
+
+from web.email import EmailSender
+from web.models import ConfigurationItem
+from web.models.constants import EMAIL_HOST_CONFIGURATION_TYPE, EMAIL_PASSWORD_CONFIGURATION_TYPE, \
+    EMAIL_PORT_CONFIGURATION_TYPE, EMAIL_USER_CONFIGURATION_TYPE, EMAIL_CONFIGURATION_TYPE
+
+
+class TestEmailSender(TestCase):
+    def setUp(selfself):
+        host = ConfigurationItem.objects.get(type=EMAIL_HOST_CONFIGURATION_TYPE)
+        host.value = "smtp.uni.lu"
+        host.save()
+        port = ConfigurationItem.objects.get(type=EMAIL_PORT_CONFIGURATION_TYPE)
+        port.value="25"
+        port.save()
+
+        # uni doesn't check it
+        user = ConfigurationItem.objects.get(type=EMAIL_USER_CONFIGURATION_TYPE)
+        password = ConfigurationItem.objects.get(type=EMAIL_PASSWORD_CONFIGURATION_TYPE)
+
+
+        email_from = ConfigurationItem.objects.get(type=EMAIL_CONFIGURATION_TYPE)
+        email_from.value = "piotr.gawron@uni.lu"
+        email_from.save()
+
+    def test_send_email(self):
+        email_sender = EmailSender()
+        email_sender.send_email("test", "test body<br/>and content", "piotr.gawron@uni.lu")