email console backend is silent

[Mike Dewhirst]

Some little time ago my admin site stopped sending password reset
emails. After checking all the credentials, ports, server names, etc it
is still silent.

So in the dev-server I set EMAIL_BACKEND =
'django.core.mail.backends.console.EmailBackend' and proceeded to
request a password reset. Nothing was emitted by the dev-server apart
from ...

Quit the server with CTRL-BREAK.
[26/Sep/2016 09:30:38] "GET /admin/ HTTP/1.1" 302 0
[26/Sep/2016 09:30:38] "GET /admin/login/?next=/admin/ HTTP/1.1" 200 2374
[26/Sep/2016 09:30:40] "GET /admin/password_reset/ HTTP/1.1" 200 1911
[26/Sep/2016 09:30:44] "POST /admin/password_reset/ HTTP/1.1" 302 0
[26/Sep/2016 09:30:44] "GET /admin/password_reset/done/ HTTP/1.1" 200 1784

How do I start debugging this?

Thanks

Mike

EMAIL_HOST = (my ISP's valid, pingable smtp host name)
EMAIL_PORT = 465
EMAIL_HOST_USER = (correct username issued by my ISP)
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = (working password)
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = EMAIL_HOST_USER

[Tim Graham]

I would put print statements in the Django source code and try to follow its execution.

[Mike Dewhirst]

Thanks Tim

Followed the code to the query to return users with the entered email address and that triggered a deeper look to check I was entering the correct email address. I wasn't. My bad. Django's good.

Mike