Question

I set up the sendmail email backend with this snippet

I open the shell and run (with actual email accounts):

from django.core.mail import send_mail

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

After that, the console just prints a:

1

No error messages or anything… but the emails never arrive on the other end…

Is there anything else that I need to configure?

Thanks,

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Requested the mail server’s error logs from my hosting provider and saw this:

 send_to_gateway router failed to expand "${perl{mailtrapheaders2}}": 
 Undefined subroutine &main::mailtrapheaders2 called.\n`

They are still trying to figure it out :S

Answer 1

In the snippet code:

def send_messages(self, email_messages):
    """
    Sends one or more EmailMessage objects and returns the number of email
    messages sent.
    """

which returns a variable num_sent which is incremented for every mail that has been actually sent. This is the 1 your are seeing displayed in the console.