Django not sending emails to admins

Question

According to the documentation, if DEBUG is set to False and something is provided under the ADMINS setting, Django will send an email

Answer 1

... and then there's the facepalm error, when you've used this in development to prevent emails from going out, and then accidentally copy the setting to production:

# Print emails to console
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.console.EmailBackend'

(of course you don't see them being printed to console when using a wsgi server). Removing the setting from production fixed this for me.