Django - [Errno 111] Connection refused

Question

when I post a comment, do not save, crashes (error: [Errno 111] Connection refused), why?

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Answer 1

Install postfix package on your server and it works. If is ubuntu, try it:

sudo apt-get install postfix

In your settings, put:

EMAIL_HOST = 'localhost'

Answer 2

We recently moved away from the Python debugging email server to use a program called Mailcatcher. Mailcatcher runs as a daemon to intercept all of your test email messages to port 1025, and is integrated with a web server so that you can then view the intercepted emails from a browser. Advantages

• you can view test emails as HTML if needed
• central management of all test emails -- they stay around until you clear them
• view test emails from any browser, instead of scrolling through terminal window

You can read more and download it here: http://rubygems.org/gems/mailcatcher

If you don't like Ruby, a co-worker of mine has ported the functionality of Mailcatcher to node.js -- check out MailDev here: http://djfarrelly.github.io/MailDev/

Answer 3

EMailDump is usable and useful local server smtp, easy installation, this developed in python https://github.com/ThiefMaster/maildump

Answer 4

I also run into this error. Instead of using gmail, I decided to setup my own mailserver using postfix. See my reasons here.

To setup postfix on Ubuntu 12.04:

sudo apt-get install postfix

Then, copy the config file to /etc/postfix/:

cp /usr/share/postfix/main.cf.debian /etc/postfix/main.cf

Add the following lines to main.cf:

mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 [::ffff:127.0.0.0]/104 [::1]/128
mydestination = localhost

Reload the config file:

/etc/init.d/postfix reload

To test and see if postfix is working:

telnet localhost 25

Then enter the following line by line:

mail from: whatever@whatever.com
rcpt to: your_real_email_addr@blah.com
data (press enter)
type whatever content you feel like to type
. (put an extra period on the last line and then press enter again)

If it works, you should see something like this:

250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as CC732427AE

Next, put the following line in your Django's settings.py:

EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
EMAIL_HOST = 'localhost'
EMAIL_PORT = 25
EMAIL_HOST_USER = ''
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = ''
EMAIL_USE_TLS = False
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = 'Server <server@whatever.com>'

To test if Django can send email via postfix, open Django shell:

./manage.py shell

>>> from django.core.mail import send_mail
>>> send_mail('Subject here', 'Here is the message.', 'from@example.com',
    ['to@example.com'], fail_silently=False)

Check your spam inbox and you should see the email above shown.

Answer 5

installing postfix did it for me.

There seemed to be no answer here that was suitably upvoted, so this page can be a bit confusing. Notice in the documentation: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/ref/settings/#std:setting-EMAIL_HOST

the parameters settings.py have default values.

When I installed postfix it fixed the problem, locally at least.

Hope this helps another confused soul!

Answer 6

Looks like you are trying to send a mail (send_mail()) and your mail settings in your settings.py are not correct.

You should check the docs for sending emails.

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For debugging purposes you could setup a local smtpserver with this command:

python -m smtpd -n -c DebuggingServer localhost:1025

and adjust your mail settings accordingly:

EMAIL_HOST = 'localhost'
EMAIL_PORT = 1025

This is documented here: Testing e-mail sending

As an alternative to starting a dedicated debugging server you could use the console.EmailBackend which was added to Django recently.