Django - [Errno 111] Connection refused

Question

when I post a comment, do not save, crashes (error: [Errno 111] Connection refused), why?

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Answer 1

I also run into this error. Instead of using gmail, I decided to setup my own mailserver using postfix. See my reasons here.

To setup postfix on Ubuntu 12.04:

sudo apt-get install postfix

Then, copy the config file to /etc/postfix/:

cp /usr/share/postfix/main.cf.debian /etc/postfix/main.cf

Add the following lines to main.cf:

mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 [::ffff:127.0.0.0]/104 [::1]/128
mydestination = localhost

Reload the config file:

/etc/init.d/postfix reload

To test and see if postfix is working:

telnet localhost 25

Then enter the following line by line:

mail from: whatever@whatever.com
rcpt to: your_real_email_addr@blah.com
data (press enter)
type whatever content you feel like to type
. (put an extra period on the last line and then press enter again)

If it works, you should see something like this:

250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as CC732427AE

Next, put the following line in your Django's settings.py:

EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
EMAIL_HOST = 'localhost'
EMAIL_PORT = 25
EMAIL_HOST_USER = ''
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = ''
EMAIL_USE_TLS = False
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = 'Server '

To test if Django can send email via postfix, open Django shell:

./manage.py shell

>>> from django.core.mail import send_mail
>>> send_mail('Subject here', 'Here is the message.', 'from@example.com',
    ['to@example.com'], fail_silently=False)

Check your spam inbox and you should see the email above shown.