Question

Hay, i can’t seem to send emails using send_mail(), and I’m not sure why.

Here’s my details

settins.py

EMAIL_HOST = 'localhost',
EMAIL_PORT = 25

My view

from django.core.mail import send_mail

send_mail('Subject here', 'Here is the message.', '[e-mail]',
    ['[e-mail]'], fail_silently=False)

This fails with the error

getaddrinfo() argument 1 must be string or None

Anyone have any ideas?

I’m developing on OS X Leopard

Heres the last traceback

/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/smtplib.py in connect
for res in socket.getaddrinfo(host, port, 0, socket.SOCK_STREAM): ...
▼ Local vars
Variable    Value
host    ('localhost',)
msg     'getaddrinfo returns an empty list'
port    25
self    <smtplib.SMTP instance at 0x153b1e8>

Answer 1

The comma after EMAIL_HOST is making it a tuple of length one instead of a string. Remove the stray comma.