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Connection Refused Error: Django
- Authors
- Name
- Manas Mallick
After succesfully setting up cookiecutter when the user tries to signup in the sample application, the following error is thrown
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/smtplib.py", line 253, in __init__
(code, msg) = self.connect(host, port)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/smtplib.py", line 339, in connect
self.sock = self._get_socket(host, port, self.timeout)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/smtplib.py", line 308, in _get_socket
return socket.create_connection((host, port), timeout)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/socket.py", line 808, in create_connection
raise err
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/socket.py", line 796, in create_connection
sock.connect(sa)
ConnectionRefusedError: [Errno 61] Connection refused
REASON:
The default auth model requires user email verification(confirmation) for the registered user, you must’ve not provided a valid email smtp server (This server is used for all email service for this app)
RESOLUTION:
- Provide valid smtp details [server name, port] in EMAIL section of app_name/config/settings/local.py
- If you dont have valid email server details, change the EMAIL_BACKEND settings in app_name/config/settings/base.py under EMAIL
Before
EMAIL_BACKEND = env(
“DJANGO_EMAIL_BACKEND”, default=”django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend”
)
After
EMAIL_BACKEND = env(
“DJANGO_EMAIL_BACKEND”, default=”django.core.mail.backends.console.EmailBackend”
)
Restart the server (the server auto restarts) sign up again and this time you would see the email body in console instead. Click on the given link to confirm email