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Asked: 2026-05-11T12:54:49+00:00

I put the following in my settings.py file. The email address there is a

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I put the following in my settings.py file. The email address there is a test one. I found the email settings from Webfaction‘s site: 

EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.webfaction.com' EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'hekevintran_test' EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'testpass' EMAIL_PORT = 465 EMAIL_USE_TLS = True

This is what my file looks like:

from django.core.mail import send_mail  send_mail(subject='subject',           message='message',           from_email='hekevintran_test@webfaction.com',           recipient_list=['recipient@yahoo.com'],           fail_silently=False)

When I run the above it stalls a long time and then gives me this error:

SMTPServerDisconnected: Connection unexpectedly closed

What am I doing wrong?

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  1. I have a Django project on Webfaction right now that is properly sending emails. The only difference between your settings and mine is that I did not specify EMAIL_PORT or EMAIL_USE_TLS. Try it out without those settings and let Django use the default it has and see if it works.

    For reference’s sake, the default settings are:

    EMAIL_PORT = 25 EMAIL_USE_TLS = False
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