Getting plain port 25 mail working

[Jonathan Hayward]

I'm trying to get my Pinax project to send mail by connecting to 10.0.0.1 port 25 (I have hand-tested that I can send emails this way.)

I have in my settings.py:

DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = 'Orthodox Network <chri...@pobox.com>'

EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'

EMAIL_HOST = '10.0.0.1'

EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'chri...@pobox.com'

EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = ''

EMAIL_PORT = 25

EMAIL_USE_TLS = False

EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX = '[Orthodox Network]'

The email backend is quoted from web snippets, but I think my 0.7 project is out of sync with the EMAIL_BACKEND.

I can successfully import 'django.core.mail' from the virtualenv/python manage.py shell, but I cannot import 'django.core.mail.backends', and a dir on the imported module does not make it obvious where the EmailBackend would have been moved to. I found a snippet at http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/1864/ that looked promising--until I looked at the imports and saw that it imports a submodule of django.core.mail.backends.

Any suggestions on how I can make a python manage.py send_mail shoot over the messages to the server?

The following, from virtualenv/python manage.py shell, successfully sent me a test message:

>>> from django.core.mail import send_mail

>>> send_mail('Subject here', 'Here is the message.', 

... 'jonathan...@pobox.com', ['chri...@pobox.com'], fail_silently = False)

1

And a password reset with an EMAIL_BACKEND of 'django.core.mail.send_mail' / 'django.core.mail' didn't leave anything in my inbox.

What should I do?

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