Re: Unable to send activation email. user authentication

Thank you Ryan. I will provide feedback on this solution

On Saturday, September 7, 2024 at 5:45:59 PM UTC+4 Ryan Nowakowski wrote:

On September 5, 2024 9:06:38 PM CDT, Asoma Samuel <samuela...@gmail.com> wrote:

>I've overridden socket.getfqdn to return a specific local hostname in my
>Django settings, but this results in the following error when running
>python manage.py runserver:
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>TypeError: getfqdn() takes 0 positional arguments but 1 was given
>
>When I comment out the override, the server starts without issues, but I'm
>unable to test email sending. Here's the relevant part of my code:
>python
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>import socket # Override the local hostname used by Django for sending
>emails EMAIL_HOST_LOCALNAME = 'localhost' socket.getfqdn = lambda:
>EMAIL_HOST_LOCALNAME


getfqdn takes an argument[1] so your monkeypatch needs to take an argument:

original_getfqdn = socket.getfqdn

def my_getfqdn(name=None):
if name is None:
return EMAIL_HOST_LOCALNAME
else:
return original_getfqdn(name)

socket.getfqdn = my_getfqdn

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/socket.html#socket.getfqdn

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