"[Errno 101] Network is unreachable" when trying to send email using Django

Question

For some reason I am getting this error when trying to send an email (with gmail) using Django.

[Errno 101] Network is unreachable

The weird part about this is that it only seems to happen when my web app is running on my server (bluehost). It works fine when locally.

Here are my email settings

EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = '[email protected]'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'FakePassword'
EMAIL_PORT = 587

Any idea as to how I can fix this?

Answer 1

This is likely to have to do with the port you are trying to send email from on the blue host machine.

They probably block ports like that for security reasons.

More info: https://my.bluehost.com/cgi/help/500