Django send_mail results in Error 60, Operation Timed Out on Mac OSX

Question

A very severe error is being executed. I run Django on my Mac OSX, and when I tried to send an email from my application, it freezes and gives me this error: “Error 60, Operation Timed Out”. Exception Location: ... python2.6 / socket.py in create_connection

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Are you using a local OSX SMTP server ? if not, then I can offer this script, which when used during development will dump any locally sent mail message to a file:

http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/96/