Testing e-mail sending locally in Django

November 21st, 2009    |    1 comment     |    Tags: DjangoemailPython

If you need to test you Django app’s email sending functionality locally, you’re in luck. Python has a built in “dumb” SMTP email server for doing just that.

All you need to do to run it is open up your console and type:

python -m smtpd -n -c DebuggingServer localhost:1025

Then just change your settings.py file to have these settings:

EMAIL_HOST = "localhost"
EMAIL_PORT = 1025

… and any email sent from your local Django app will show up in the console for you to view.

See this page for more info: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/email/#testing-e-mail-sending

Hope that helps, cheers!

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