Does anyone had success getting Django to send emails when hosting on Dreamhost?

Question

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?

Answer 1

As proposed by S.Mark, you can use gmail. Here is what you need in your settings.py

ADMINS = (
    ('Your Name', 'your_name@email.com'),
)

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

Answer 2

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()

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

Do you have an SMTP 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 SMTP server. You can create your own on your own hardware if you like, or you can use a number of free SMTP servers out there. I'd say the most fun would be to set up your own box and make your own SMTP server ;)

Answer 5

Try to use:

EMAIL_HOST = "localhost"

instead of DNS resolution...