It turns out that this is by design: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/testing/#e-mail-services
This behavior is fine -- even better than the SMTP "black hole" setup that I have. Peace, Andrew On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 07:21:52PM -0400, Andrew D. Ball 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? > > In versions 0.96.1 and 0.96.2 sending email with > django.core.mail.send_mail works the same within unit > tests and in regular views. This is the behavior I want. > > I've uploaded a small project to demonstrate what I'm talking > about at > http://www.ibiblio.org/adball/debugging/django/email_test.tar.bz2 > > If you do > > python manage.py test > > no email would be sent, even though it contains a unit test that > does > > email = EmailMessage('[unit test] subject', 'body', '[EMAIL > PROTECTED]', ['[EMAIL PROTECTED]']) > email.send(fail_silently=False) > > In a view that corresponds to the ^test_email/ URL pattern, > I have nearly identical code. The only difference is that '[unit test]' > is replaced with '[not unit test]'. Email gets sent just > fine when I run this view through a web browser. > > 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. > > Peace, > Andrew > -- > =================================== > Andrew D. Ball > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Software Engineer > American Research Institute, Inc. > http://www.americanri.com/ -- =================================== Andrew D. Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] Software Engineer American Research Institute, Inc. http://www.americanri.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
