No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it (Django)

Question

I have followed the Django Book up until chapter seven, and I am currently messing around with forms, GET, POST and all that goodness. At one point, the guide made me figure out

Answer 1

I got this error attempting to use django.core.mail.send_mail. I only need this for running through some tutorials. I don't need it to actually send mail.

The solution for me was to add this single variable to settings.py:

EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.console.EmailBackend'

It sends the content of the email to console output, which is perfect given what I'm doing.

Docs: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/topics/email/#django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend