Connection timeout issue sending email in Django

Question

I read from

http://www.packtpub.com/article/friends-via-email-social-web-application-django-1.0

and follow the steps: => And change my setting.py

Answer 1

You code looks correct, so I think there is a problem with your settings. Are you positive that specified the EMAIL_HOST and EMAIL_PORT correctly?

Note: Its EMAIL_USE_TLS not MAIL_USE_TLS and you can set your from address (3rd parameter in send_mail function) to None if you want it to take your DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL value.

Answer 2

'Connection timed out' means Django couldn't connect to your email server. Type this on a command line:

telnet smtp.xxxx.com.kh 25

You should get a response from the email server, something like:

220 rufus Python SMTP proxy version 0.2

If you don't get a response,you have found the problem.

Here's a handy command to run a local development server, on Linux:

sudo /usr/lib/python2.6/smtpd.py -n -c DebuggingServer 127.0.0.1:25