Django send_mail "lock already in place. quitting."

Question

I am having an issue with send_mail in Django. It has been working fine until I tried to change some Email settings to have it use an EMAIL_HOST_USER and EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. When I did that my test emails where not sent.

I reverted back to my old email settings that did work and now it is still not sending emails. I have restarted things to make sure that my current settings are in effect. When I run the commmand 'python manage.py send_mail' to test I get this response:

acquiring lock... lock already in place. quitting.

In looking at the code in mailer.engine:

def send_all():
    """
    Send all eligible messages in the queue.
    """

    lock = FileLock("send_mail")

    logging.debug("acquiring lock...")
    try:
        lock.acquire(LOCK_WAIT_TIMEOUT)
    except AlreadyLocked:
        logging.debug("lock already in place. quitting.")
        return
    except LockTimeout:
        logging.debug("waiting for the lock timed out. quitting.")
        return
    logging.debug("acquired.")

    start_time = time.time()

    dont_send = 0
    deferred = 0
    sent = 0

It appears that because it gets the exception 'AlreadyLocked' it exits without sending the emails. If this is truly the case, how do I break this lock and start over?

score 7 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 15 '11 at 00:57

7

most probably there is a "lock file" ('send_mail') in your directory - just remove it

answered Apr 15 '11 at 00:57

Jerzyk

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note: if this was run through crontab. the send_mail file was in the home directory of the user – abarax May 02 '18 at 00:25

Django send_mail "lock already in place. quitting."

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