Django allauth example [Errno 61] Connection refused

Question

I have the following error when I run django allauth example and it tries to send an email:

File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/socket.py", line 571, in create_connection
raise err
error: [Errno 61] Connection refused

Under OS X 10.9.1

Answer 1

From allauth documentation:

When I sign up I run into connectivity errors (connection refused et al)

You probably have not got an e-mail (SMTP) server running on the machine you are developing on. Therefore, allauth is unable to send verification mails.

You can work around this by adding the following line to settings.py:

EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.console.EmailBackend' This will avoid the need for an SMTP server as e-mails will be printed to the console. For more information, please refer to:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/settings/#email-backend

Answer 2

Alternatively if you have a social sign up, you probably do not require verification email so you can just add ACCOUNT_EMAIL_VERIFICATION = 'none' to your settings. This will automatically solve the problem.