error at /accounts/login/ [Errno 111] Connection refused
Request Method: POST
Request URL: http://127.00.00.1:8000/accounts/login/?next=/checkout/
Django Version: 1.6.6
Exception Type: error
Exception Value: [Errno 111] Connection refused
Exception Location: /usr/lib/python2.7/socket.py in create_connection, line 571
/python2.7/site-packages/oscar/apps/customer/utils.py
in send_user_email_messages that are evidently part of the email setup. There were a few solutions mentioned in the google group docs. This one doesn't work (the 'oscar.apps.customer.auth_backends.Emailbackend' spelling is correct), but this one does, so the solution, for me, was to add:
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.console.EmailBackend'
into the settings.py. Hope that helps somebody.