Got this resolved. The issue was that I needed to close my idle
session and reopen it after changing my settings.
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Scott Macri <scottma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Here is my telnet response:
>
> Trying 74.125.45.109...
> Connected to gmail-smtp-msa.l.google.com.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 mx.google.com ESMTP v26sm52104286yhk.1
>
> I can run thunderbird on the same machine and don't have any issues.
> No, I am not running tbird at the same time as the django app. Thus,
> I know it's not a port conflict.
>
> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Tom Evans <tevans...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Scott Macri <scottma...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I'm attempting to send a message from my django app via gmail and keep
>>> getting a connection refused error even though I know the parameters
>>> are correct.
>>>
>>> settings.py
>>> EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
>>> EMAIL_PORT = '587'
>>> EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
>>> EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'myu...@gmail.com'
>>> EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'password'
>>>
>>> idle command:
>>> send_mail('My First Subject','My First Email Message in
>>> DJango','myu...@gmail.com',['someb...@gmail.com'],fail_silently=False)
>>>
>>> I am able to send email through my mail client (Thunderbird).
>>>
>>> Any insight on this matter would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
>>>
>>> ********* The error message is below ************
>>>
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>> File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
>>> File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/core/mail/__init__.py",
>>> line 61, in send_mail
>>> connection=connection).send()
>>> File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/core/mail/message.py",
>>> line 251, in send
>>> return self.get_connection(fail_silently).send_messages([self])
>>> File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/core/mail/backends/smtp.py",
>>> line 79, in send_messages
>>> new_conn_created = self.open()
>>> File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/core/mail/backends/smtp.py",
>>> line 42, in open
>>> local_hostname=DNS_NAME.get_fqdn())
>>> File
>>> "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/smtplib.py",
>>> line 239, in __init__
>>> (code, msg) = self.connect(host, port)
>>> File
>>> "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/smtplib.py",
>>> line 295, in connect
>>> self.sock = self._get_socket(host, port, self.timeout)
>>> File
>>> "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/smtplib.py",
>>> line 273, in _get_socket
>>> return socket.create_connection((port, host), timeout)
>>> File
>>> "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/socket.py",
>>> line 512, in create_connection
>>> raise error, msg
>>> error: [Errno 61] Connection refused
>>>
>>
>> Connection refused is pretty clear. Something is stopping outgoing
>> connections from reaching smtp.gmail.com.
>>
>> You didn't specify whether thunderbird and django running on the same
>> machine - are they?
>>
>> If you go to a console on the machine where django is running, and
>> type in "telnet smtp.gmail.com 587", you should get an output like
>> this:
>>
>>> $ telnet smtp.gmail.com 587
>> Trying 173.194.67.108...
>> Connected to gmail-smtp-msa.l.google.com.
>> Escape character is '^]'.
>> 220 mx.google.com ESMTP 9sm82106435wid.2
>>
>> If not, you must have a firewall somewhere between that box and google
>> that is refusing the connection.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Tom
>>
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