django registration requires smtp server?

[nicferrier]

When I try and register with chishop I get a failure:

Traceback: File "/home/nferrier/chishop/parts/django/django/core/handlers/base.py" in get_response

1.             response = callback(request, _callback_args, *_callback_kwargs)
   

   File "/home/nferrier/chishop/eggs/django_registration-0.8_alpha_1-py2.6.egg/registration/views.py" in register

2.         new_user = backend.register(request, **form.cleaned_data)
   

   File "/home/nferrier/chishop/eggs/django_registration-0.8_alpha_1-py2.6.egg/registration/backends/default/init.py" in register

3.                                                                 password, site)
   

   File "/home/nferrier/chishop/parts/django/django/db/transaction.py" in _commit_on_success

4.             res = func(_args, *_kw)
   

   File "/home/nferrier/chishop/eggs/django_registration-0.8_alpha_1-py2.6.egg/registration/models.py" in create_inactive_user

5.         registration_profile.send_activation_email(site)
   

   File "/home/nferrier/chishop/eggs/django_registration-0.8_alpha_1-py2.6.egg/registration/models.py" in send_activation_email

6.     self.user.email_user(subject, message, settings.DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL)
   

   File "/home/nferrier/chishop/parts/django/django/contrib/auth/models.py" in email_user

7.     send_mail(subject, message, from_email, [self.email])
   

   File "/home/nferrier/chishop/parts/django/django/core/mail.py" in send_mail

8.                     connection=connection).send()
   

   File "/home/nferrier/chishop/parts/django/django/core/mail.py" in send

9.     return self.get_connection(fail_silently).send_messages([self])
   

   File "/home/nferrier/chishop/parts/django/django/core/mail.py" in send_messages

10.         sent = self._send(message)
    

    File "/home/nferrier/chishop/parts/django/django/core/mail.py" in _send

11.                 email_message.message().as_string())
    

    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/smtplib.py" in sendmail

12.     self.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed()
    

    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/smtplib.py" in ehlo_or_helo_if_needed

13.         if not (200 <= self.ehlo()[0] <= 299):
    

    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/smtplib.py" in ehlo

14.     self.putcmd(self.ehlo_msg, name or self.local_hostname)
    

    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/smtplib.py" in putcmd

15.     self.send(str)
    

    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/smtplib.py" in send

16.         raise SMTPServerDisconnected('please run connect() first')
    

Exception Type: SMTPServerDisconnected at /accounts/register/ Exception Value: please run connect() first

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I don't have an SMTP server configured in Django, not sure how to set one up either...

This:

http://code.google.com/p/app-engine-patch/issues/detail?id=211

suggests the problem can be fixed with an option to runserver, but the runserver chishop builds does not have that option (as far as I can see).

Maybe other authentication systems would be better anyway since this will mostly be used for team and personal servers?

[bassdread]

https://github.com/isotoma/FakeEmail provides a fake email server and gives you access to the emails that would have been sent using a web interface. Worth checking out as a temporary solution.