from django.conf import settings
from django.core.mail import SMTPConnection
from django.core.mail.message import EmailMultiAlternatives

NO_HTML_EMAIL_MESSAGE = """
Your email client is trying to display the plaintext version of an email that
is only supported in HTML. Please set your email client to display this message
in HTML, or use an email client that supports HTML emails.
"""

def send_HTML_email(subject, recipient, html_content, text_content=None):
    if not text_content:
        text_content = getattr(settings, 'NO_HTML_EMAIL_MESSAGE',
                               NO_HTML_EMAIL_MESSAGE)

    # If you get the return_path header wrong, this may impede mail delivery. It appears that the SMTP server
    # has to recognize the return_path as being valid for the sending host. If we set it to, say, our SMTP
    # server, this will always be the case (as the server is explicitly serving the host).
    email_return_path = getattr(settings, 'EMAIL_RETURN_PATH', None)
    if email_return_path is None: 
        # Get last two parts of the SMTP server as a proxy for the domain name from which this mail is sent.
        # This works for gmail, anyway.
        email_return_path = settings.EMAIL_LOGIN
    
    email_from = getattr(settings, 'EMAIL_FROM', None)
    if email_from is None:
        email_from = email_return_path
    from_header = {'From': email_from}  # From-header
    connection = SMTPConnection(username=settings.EMAIL_LOGIN,
                                port=settings.EMAIL_SMTP_PORT,
                                host=settings.EMAIL_SMTP_HOST,
                                password=settings.EMAIL_PASSWORD,
                                use_tls=True,
                                fail_silently=False)
    
    msg = EmailMultiAlternatives(subject, text_content, email_return_path, [recipient], headers=from_header, connection=connection)
    msg.attach_alternative(html_content, "text/html")
    msg.send()

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Update send_HTML_email to use get_connection rather than SMTPConnection.