Thanks again to you Rajesh, and Malcom for great troubleshooting tips.
Due to separate issue I discovered that I was missing the 127.0.0.1
localhost line from my /etc/hosts ... fixing that also fixed my mail
issue!
- Ethan
On Jul 14, 4:15 pm, Rajesh Dhawan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jul 14, 7:02 pm, EAMiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Jul 14, 11:57 am, Rajesh Dhawan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > Drop into a shell (python manage.py shell) and send yourself a test
> > > message using:
>
> > > from django.core.mail import send_mail
>
> > > send_mail('Subject test', 'Message test', '[EMAIL PROTECTED]',
> > > ['your_email_address_here'], fail_silently=False)
>
> > > With fail_silently=False, you will receive some kind of an error
> > > message if that email send is unsuccessful. Use that to investigate
> > > further.
>
> > Thanks Rajesh, good suggestion.
>
> > Now I (sortof) know my problem...
>
> > File "smtplib.py", line 296, in connect
> > for res in socket.getaddrinfo(host, port, 0, socket.SOCK_STREAM):
> > gaierror: (-2, 'Name or service not known')
>
> This looks like some kind of a name server lookup failure.
>
>
>
> > Not sure what this really means. Doesn't the fact that I can use
> > 'mail' to send mail from the CLI mean my postfix setup is basically
> > OK? I will keep working on it.
>
> Yes, that would mean that your Postfix setup is OK. Try setting
> EMAIL_HOST to '127.0.0.1' to see if that helps.
>
> Otherwise, try this in a Python shell:
>
> import socket
> host = socket.gethostname()
> print host
> ip = socket.gethostbyname(host)
> print ip
>
> If that ip= line fails, it means your server's hostname doesn't
> resolve to an IP address. Just add a 127.0.0.1 entry for it in your /
> etc/hosts and that should take care of it.
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