On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 7:21 AM, Andrew D. Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've noticed that email isn't being sent during unit tests > in Django 1.0 beta 1. The django.core.mail.EmailMessage.send > method returns '1' as if it had sent 1 message successfully, > but the SMTP server doesn't get contacted at all. The > same thing happens with django.core.mail.send_mail. > > Is this expected behavior? Is it documented somewhere?
Yes, and yes. http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/testing/#e-mail-services > What gives? I'd like my unit tests to send emails. It's fine > if I have to add a setting or something, but it's not okay that > I'm currently unable to get emails to be sent by unit tests. > > I have a really nice "SMTP black hole" -- an SMTP server on > a VM that delivers mail to any email address to a local mail > spool, so the unit tests' sending emails won't hurt anything. Well... yes it will. It will hurt everyone that doesn't have access to your SMTP black hole, or a black hole of their own (which isn't always going to be easy to set up - for example, on shared hosting). It also means that it isn't easy to check the contents of sent mail as part of your test. Yours, Russ Magee %-) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
