Just for the record, to close this off - the problem was solved when I finally configured Django to send email via my *ISP*. Apparently Django was doing some unnecessary formatting, whether the output went to file, console, or even *smtp*, going to a local smtp server: python -m smtpd -n -c DebuggingServer localhost:1025
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