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[{"user_id": 12927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37478, "date_created": 1306818670.825213, "message": "Thanks for the tip, does postmark require me to install a mail server or does it take care of all that?", "group_id": 81, "id": 1234688}, {"user_id": 12927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37478, "date_created": 1306816956.6040781, "message": "I am setting up a django site on rackspace and was wondering whether anybody had suggestions for an email service to use with the site for basic sign-up/password reset emails?", "group_id": 81, "id": 1234430}, {"user_id": 3304, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37478, "date_created": 1306818584.07775, "message": "I'm a big fan of Postmark - http://www.postmarkapp.com/ There is also a Django mailer back-end for easy integration at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-postmark", "group_id": 81, "id": 1234680}, {"user_id": 13496, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37478, "date_created": 1306820604.7436659, "message": "I assume you're already using django-registration for handling the signup/password process? In my experience the native SMTP works just fine, but Postmark might be good if you need something fancier for that part of it.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1234845}, {"user_id": 12927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37478, "date_created": 1306821311.1169009, "message": "should I be able to use the native smtp functionality in django-registration on my local machine or do I need to install some additional packages, I am getting an error message when I try to use the default backend to register.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1234910}, {"user_id": 26888, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37478, "date_created": 1306821346.6571591, "message": "@thesteve postmarks doesn't require a mail server. It uses an API to get the information and handle the mails for you. All you need is install the application and configure the mail backend in the settings. Just give it a try, it is more than worth to my opinion.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1234911}, {"user_id": 28384, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37478, "date_created": 1306825027.212769, "message": "but I am currently using Postmarkapp via their SMTP api and it works great as well", "group_id": 81, "id": 1235224}, {"user_id": 12927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37478, "date_created": 1306825618.7485931, "message": "i see , that makes sense, can i send email with just django for testing or do i need some type of third party sender?", "group_id": 81, "id": 1235270}, {"user_id": 12927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37478, "date_created": 1306825850.913008, "message": "that did it", "group_id": 81, "id": 1235287}, {"user_id": 12927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37478, "date_created": 1306825909.383812, "message": "i appreciate the help", "group_id": 81, "id": 1235292}, {"user_id": 12927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37478, "date_created": 1306825055.650636, "message": "im having trouble installing postmark because it says it cant find the package pytz", "group_id": 81, "id": 1235225}, {"user_id": 12927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37478, "date_created": 1306825066.3863211, "message": "any experience with that?", "group_id": 81, "id": 1235226}, {"user_id": 28384, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37478, "date_created": 1306825226.1158481, "message": "then in your settings just configure it like the following EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.postmarkapp.com'\nEMAIL_PORT = 25\nEMAIL_USE_TLS = False\nEMAIL_HOST_USER = 'YOUR API KEY HERE'\nEMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'YOUR API KEY HERE'", "group_id": 81, "id": 1235234}, {"user_id": 12927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37478, "date_created": 1306825352.9116321, "message": "i am a bit confused is django-postmark the same as  postmarkapp?", "group_id": 81, "id": 1235249}, {"user_id": 28384, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37478, "date_created": 1306825393.792377, "message": "postmarkapp is the email web service https://postmarkapp.com/", "group_id": 81, "id": 1235252}, {"user_id": 28384, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37478, "date_created": 1306825336.676729, "message": "just make sure your from email addresses are configured in the sender signatures", "group_id": 81, "id": 1235244}, {"user_id": 12927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37478, "date_created": 1306825419.998507, "message": "no relation to django-postmark?", "group_id": 81, "id": 1235256}, {"user_id": 28384, "stars": [{"date_created": 1307303667.16328, "user_id": 5350}], "topic_id": 37478, "date_created": 1306825853.67257, "message": "I also sometimes use http://mocksmtpapp.com/ which creates a local SMTP server to view the emails sent to it. and to use it you just set your email settings to EMAIL_HOST = 'localhost'\nEMAIL_HOST_USER = None\nEMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = None\nEMAIL_PORT = 1025 (or whatever port it is listening on)\nEMAIL_USE_TLS = False", "group_id": 81, "id": 1235288}, {"user_id": 28384, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37478, "date_created": 1306825461.9103861, "message": "with postmarkapp you can send emails via their API or SMTP, my instructions above use the SMPT access to send mail.  I am guessing the django-postmark utilizes their API to send the emails.  I haven't looked at django-postmark", "group_id": 81, "id": 1235259}, {"user_id": 12927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37478, "date_created": 1306825016.9834411, "message": "very cool thanks", "group_id": 81, "id": 1235222}, {"user_id": 12927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37478, "date_created": 1306825847.0196109, "message": "very cool thanks", "group_id": 81, "id": 1235284}, {"user_id": 28384, "stars": [{"date_created": 1306886730.2350631, "user_id": 5778}], "topic_id": 37478, "date_created": 1306824992.7670441, "message": "Rackspace has partnered with SendGrid to offer a free bronze (40,000 emails/month) plan to Rackspace cloud customers http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/email_delivery_solution/", "group_id": 81, "id": 1235221}, {"user_id": 28384, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37478, "date_created": 1306825179.0709291, "message": "I just use the SMTP API, so in postmarkapp, enable SMTP access by going to the server > credentials and click enable for SMTP access", "group_id": 81, "id": 1235231}, {"user_id": 28384, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37478, "date_created": 1306825737.840368, "message": "for testing, I use the console backend", "group_id": 81, "id": 1235273}, {"user_id": 28384, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37478, "date_created": 1306825282.1754069, "message": "then you should be able to just use send_mail to send your emails and what not", "group_id": 81, "id": 1235238}, {"user_id": 28384, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37478, "date_created": 1306825927.654681, "message": "not a problem, here are some more details on testing email sending https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/topics/email/#testing-e-mail-sending", "group_id": 81, "id": 1235293}, {"user_id": 28384, "stars": [{"date_created": 1307303684.3651121, "user_id": 5350}], "topic_id": 37478, "date_created": 1306825738.810492, "message": "EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.console.EmailBackend'", "group_id": 81, "id": 1235274}, {"user_id": 28384, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37478, "date_created": 1306825754.3197939, "message": "that will output your email to the console", "group_id": 81, "id": 1235275}, {"user_id": 28384, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37478, "date_created": 1306825885.929055, "message": "the mocksmtpapp makes it easy to view the HTML emails if you are sending those", "group_id": 81, "id": 1235290}, {"user_id": 4812, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37478, "date_created": 1306894001.0082841, "message": "hey guys, I'm way late to the party, but I work at Postmark - if you have any questions, don't hesitate to drop me a line - alex@wildbit.com or @alexknowshtml. Happy to help!", "group_id": 81, "id": 1246122}, {"user_id": 548, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37478, "date_created": 1306901886.126173, "message": "I recently dropped in django-ses on a project of mine.  It uses Amazon's SES service, which I already had keys for since I'm using S3.  See: https://github.com/hmarr/django-ses", "group_id": 81, "id": 1248118}, {"user_id": 13496, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37478, "date_created": 1306908381.690459, "message": "@thesteve Even when working on your dev machine you can still configure your app to send outbound email through a remote SMTP server - whatever your web host provides.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1250207}, {"user_id": 39186, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37478, "date_created": 1312285284.3658841, "message": "I installed postfix on a server, And my django app on another server gets timeout when trying to connect to it", "group_id": 81, "id": 1774011}, {"user_id": 39186, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37478, "date_created": 1312285328.933722, "message": "both the server's are on rackspace cloud, Any Idea guys?", "group_id": 81, "id": 1774013}, {"user_id": 14865, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37478, "date_created": 1312291061.9915581, "message": "Make sure that /etc/postfix/main.cf on the mail server doesn't have inet_interfaces set to 'loopback_only' or another name for localhost. You can eliminate your Django setup as the cause by successfully connecting to the mail server port with Telnet, first from the mail server (telnet 127.0.0.1 25) then from the other server (with the same numeric IP you entered into Django's settings).", "group_id": 81, "id": 1774587}]