I'm here to write you after about 1.5 hour of hard debugging.
First of all, these are the interested files:
/project/app/utils.py
from django.core.mail import EmailMultiAlternatives
import threading
class EmailThread(threading.Thread):
def __init__(self, subject, body, from_email, recipient_list, fail_silently, html):
self.subject = subject
self.body = body
self.recipient_list = recipient_list
self.from_email = from_email
self.fail_silently = fail_silently
self.html = html
threading.Thread.__init__(self)
def run(self):
msg = EmailMultiAlternatives(self.subject, self.body, self.from_email, self.recipient_list)
if self.html:
msg.attach_alternative(self.html, "text/html")
print "sending message"
msg.send(self.fail_silently)
print "sent."
def send_html_mail(subject, body, from_email, recipient_list, fail_silently=False, html=None, *args, **kwargs):
EmailThread(subject, body, from_email, [recipient_list], fail_silently, html).start()
/project/app/views.py
[...]
import utils
def my_view(request):
[...]
utils.send_html_mail('subject', '<h1>cool things.</h1>', 'Test <test@example.org>', 'my_email@example.org', html='<h1>cool things.</h1>')
/project/app/settings.py
# I use Amazon SES
[...]
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'backends.smtp.SSLEmailBackend'
EMAIL_HOST = 'amazon-server'
EMAIL_PORT = 465
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'user'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'pass'
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
[...]
/project/backends/smtp.py
# taken from https://gist.github.com/1486891
import smtplib
from django.core.mail.utils import DNS_NAME
from django.core.mail.backends.smtp import EmailBackend
class SSLEmailBackend(EmailBackend):
def open(self):
if self.connection:
return False
try:
self.connection = smtplib.SMTP_SSL(self.host, self.port,
local_hostname=DNS_NAME.get_fqdn())
if self.username and self.password:
self.connection.login(self.username, self.password)
return True
except:
if not self.fail_silently:
raise
Ok, now the problem:
in localhost:
- sending the email from the view works
- sending the email from the django shell works
in the deploy app on my server:
- sending the email from the view DOESN'T WORKS
- sending the email from the django shell works
Django shell output in localhost:
# utils.send_html_mail('subject', '<h1>cool things.</h1>', 'Test <test@example.org>', 'my_email@example.org', html='<h1>cool things.</h1>')
sending email
sent.
Django shell output in deploy app:
# utils.send_html_mail('subject', '<h1>cool things.</h1>', 'Test <test@example.org>', 'my_email@example.org', html='<h1>cool things.</h1>')
sending email
Same code, same commit. The problem is in the method msg.send(self.fail_silently)
just before the print "sent."
probably, but what is it? I don't have ideas.
And you?