Greetings,
Does anyone know what are the required fields to have Django send emails when a "500 Internal Server Error" happend? I am hosting my project on Dreamhost and for the life of me I can't get Django to send emails. What are the required fields when hosting on Dreamhost?
Yes, I am, same on dreamhost, but I am using gmail to send email like following sample code
import smtplib
m = smtplib.SMTP("smtp.gmail.com", 587)
m.ehlo()
m.starttls()
m.ehlo()
m.login(USERNAME, PASSWD)
m.sendmail(user, to, "From: %s\nTo: %s\n\nHello World!"%(USERNAME,TOADDR))
m.close()
As proposed by S.Mark, you can use gmail. Here is what you need in your settings.py
ADMINS = (
('Your Name', '[email protected]'),
)
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'password'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'gmail_account'
EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX = 'something'
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
Do you have an SMPT server set up anywhere? As people have suggested here, you can easily use gmail, but you are by no means limited to using only Gmails SMPT server. You can create your own on your own hardware if you like, or you can use a number of free SMPT servers out there. I'd say the most fun would be to set up your own box and make your own SMPT server ;)
One issue we seem to have found with this gmail work around, is that if you try testing by sending from a gmail account to a dreamhost email that forwards back to the same gmail, the message is dropped. This may be some weird security 'feature' that dreamhost has going.