Running into a very stange error. I'm running Django on my Mac OSX and when I tried to send an email from my application it hangs and gives me this error: "Error 61 Connection Refused"
Any ideas? I don't have my firewall turned on. I can upload an image of the error if needed.
Have you actually configured the EMAIL_* settings in settings.py? Error 61 is the error you get if you leave it on the default values and you don't have a local SMTP server running.
Alternatively, as Peter suggests, if you have set it up then you might need to use authentication with your SMTP server.
Its simple, if sendmail works via command-line, copy the code from http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/1864/ into a file called sendmail.py
"""sendmail email backend class."""
import threading
from django.conf import settings
from django.core.mail.backends.base import BaseEmailBackend
from subprocess import Popen,PIPE
class EmailBackend(BaseEmailBackend):
def __init__(self, fail_silently=False, **kwargs):
super(EmailBackend, self).__init__(fail_silently=fail_silently)
self._lock = threading.RLock()
def open(self):
return True
def close(self):
pass
def send_messages(self, email_messages):
"""
Sends one or more EmailMessage objects and returns the number of email
messages sent.
"""
if not email_messages:
return
self._lock.acquire()
try:
num_sent = 0
for message in email_messages:
sent = self._send(message)
if sent:
num_sent += 1
finally:
self._lock.release()
return num_sent
def _send(self, email_message):
"""A helper method that does the actual sending."""
if not email_message.recipients():
return False
try:
ps = Popen(["sendmail"]+list(email_message.recipients()), \
stdin=PIPE)
ps.stdin.write(email_message.message().as_string())
ps.stdin.flush()
ps.stdin.close()
return not ps.wait()
except:
if not self.fail_silently:
raise
return False
return True
Inside of settings.py, set the variable:
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'path.to.sendmail.EmailBackend'
Being totally Max OS X ignorant, my first guess would be that your SMTP server requires authentication.
I had a similar problem and found this link: http://dashasalo.com/2011/05/29/django-send_mail-connection-refused-on-macos-x/
Basically, you need to have a mail server running in order to send mail from it. If there is no mail server running you will get a 61.
