python - Django sending email

Question

I know there are 20 questions similar to mine but I've tried for over a day now to get email to work with Django.

I'm getting this error: [Errno 111] Connection refused when I attempt to send an email

This is where I create the email and attempt to send it in my view:

try:
    msg = EmailMessage(subject, message, from_email, [receiver])
    msg.content_subtype = "html"
    msg.send()

My settings file is as follows:

EMAIL_HOST = "localhost"
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = "[email protected]"
EMAIL_PORT = 25
EMAIL_BACKEND = "django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend"

I've tried doing test sending using python -m smtpd -n -c DebuggingServer localhost:1025 and had success, but when it comes down to doing it for real, no success.

When I try doing a send_mail from the shell I get this traceback:

>>> from django.core.mail import send_mail
>>> send_mail('Test', 'Test', '[email protected]', ['[email protected]'])
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django/core/mail/__init__.py", line 61, in send_mail
    connection=connection).send()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django/core/mail/message.py", line 251, in send
    return self.get_connection(fail_silently).send_messages([self])
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django/core/mail/backends/smtp.py", line 79, in send_messages
    new_conn_created = self.open()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django/core/mail/backends/smtp.py", line 42, in open
    local_hostname=DNS_NAME.get_fqdn())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/smtplib.py", line 239, in __init__
    (code, msg) = self.connect(host, port)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/smtplib.py", line 295, in connect
    self.sock = self._get_socket(host, port, self.timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/smtplib.py", line 273, in _get_socket
    return socket.create_connection((port, host), timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/socket.py", line 561, in create_connection
    raise error, msg
error: [Errno 111] Connection refused

I just don't seem to be getting anywhere with this. Any help or advice would be much appreciated. Thanks

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Answer 1

Are you trying to use a gmail account? Maybe try this then:

EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = '[email protected]'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'your-password'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True

Then try test (django < 1.4) by

python manage.py shell
>>> from django.core.mail import send_mail
>>> send_mail('test email', 'hello world', to=['[email protected]'])

And if you use django 1.4 use this:

python manage.py shell
>>> from django.core.mail import send_mail
>>> send_mail('test email', 'hello world', '[email protected]', ['[email protected]'])

If you're not using a gmail account and still getting problems then just try add the EMAIL_HOST_USER and EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD to what you have. If you still have issues maybe your network is blocking you. Firewalls on your OS or router.

Thanks to knite for the updated syntax. Throw him a +1 and thanks to pranavk for letting me know about the syntax change in django 1.4