jsummerfield · December 16, 2011 17:00 · Dec 16, 2011
diff --git a/gistfile1.py b/gistfile1.py
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+"""
+Django's SMTP EmailBackend doesn't support an SMTP_SSL connection necessary to interact with Amazon SES's newly announced SMTP server. We need to write a custom EmailBackend overriding the default EMailBackend's open(). Thanks to https://github.com/bancek/django-smtp-ssl for the example.
+"""
+
+--- settings.py
+
+EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
+EMAIL_HOST = 'email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com'
+EMAIL_PORT = 465
+EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'username'
+EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'password'
+EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
+
+--- shell
+
+>>> from django.core.mail import send_mail
+>>> send_mail('subject', 'message', '[email protected]', ['[email protected]'])
+SMTPServerDisconnected: Connection unexpectedly closed
+
+--- settings.py
+
+EMAIL_BACKEND = 'backends.smtp.SSLEmailBackend'
+
+--- backends/smtp.py
+
+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
+
+--- shell
+
+>>> from django.core.mail import send_mail
+>>> send_mail('subject', 'message', '[email protected]', ['[email protected]'])
+1