Django send_mail results in error 61 refused on Mac OSX

Question

Running into a very stange error. I'm running Django on my Mac OSX and when I tried to send an email from my application it hangs and gives me this error: "Error 61 Connection Refused"

Any ideas? I don't have my firewall turned on. I can upload an image of the error if needed.

Answer 1

Have you actually configured the EMAIL_* settings in settings.py? Error 61 is the error you get if you leave it on the default values and you don't have a local SMTP server running.

Alternatively, as Peter suggests, if you have set it up then you might need to use authentication with your SMTP server.