Re: Problems Sending Email From Django SIte

A follow up. After hitting send, I realized how to simulate an error - I asked for a page with a nonexistent id. Like the polls example in the django tutorial, I used an url with a poll_id that does not exist in my site. I got a Server Error (500) page, but no email. I looked in the exim4 reject log and found:

2014-01-31 18:07:04 unqualified recipient rejected: <a> H=localhost [127.0.0.1]

I googled this error and have not had any luck figuring it out. Since I can send email from the command line and a python script with the same settings.py file as my site, could I be missing something in the django setup for sending emails to admins when there is a site error? 

All I have in settings.py for email is localhost, port 25, and admins email addresses. Do I need something else? Some module or middleware thing-a-ma-bob? I just have the stock modules and middleware that django created with a new project. I haven't found anything in the django docs that point to a module that I am missing.

Thanks!

Mark

On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 6:06 PM, Mark Phillips <mark@phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:

I have my django site setup on my production server, a Debian machine with exim4 and django 1.6. I use smtp.cox.net to relay my emails from my server. 

I can send emails from the server using mutt. 

I can also send an email from a python prompt in my virtual environment on the server using this (with a different to and from address) after importing my projects settings.py file:

>>> from django.core.mail import send_mail

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

However, when I get an error on the site (ie self-induced), I do not get any emails from the site. I have ADMINS setup correctly per the docs. In settings.py I just have the basics - localhost and port 25 for email.

Perhaps the error I introduced was to severe (an import error is settings.py). I also tried accessing a page that does not exist, and no email.

My first question: How can I simulate/force an error on the site to get an email so I can make sure the site can send an email to the admins?

Thanks,

Mark

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