I'm trying to use Amazon's new SMTP service for SES with Django 1.3.1 but I'm not having much luck.
I've created my SES SMTP credentials and have this in my settings:
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
EMAIL_HOST = 'email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'my-smtp-user'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'my-smtp-password'
EMAIL_PORT = 465
Then I try sending a test email (from and to verified email addresses):
from django.core.mail import send_mail
send_mail('Test subject', 'This is the body', '[email protected]',['[email protected]'], fail_silently=False)
But I get the following error:
SMTPServerDisconnected: Connection unexpectedly closed
I can telnet to the server:
telnet email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com 465
Any thoughts?
Thanks, G
Thanks everyone for the recommendations but I finally found a much simpler solution that would allow me to use Django's built-in mail classes so I can still get my admin error email reports etc.
Thanks to this little beauty I was able to use SES SMTP without any problems:
https://github.com/bancek/django-smtp-ssl
Download and install (python setup.py install)
Then just change your settings to use this new email backend:
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django_smtp_ssl.SSLEmailBackend'
The rest of the settings are as per normal:
EMAIL_HOST = 'email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com'
EMAIL_PORT = 465
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'my_smtp_username'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'my_smtp_password'
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
Nice.
G