I was trying to send an email from my Django app using gmail. I added these email settings to settings.py
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'myemail@gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'mypassword'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
But it throws this name resolution error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/code.py", line 90, in runcode
exec(code, self.locals)
File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/Django-1.8.7-py3.4.egg/django/core/mail/__init__.py", line 62, in send_mail
return mail.send()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/Django-1.8.7-py3.4.egg/django/core/mail/message.py", line 303, in send
return self.get_connection(fail_silently).send_messages([self])
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/Django-1.8.7-py3.4.egg/django/core/mail/backends/smtp.py", line 100, in send_messages
new_conn_created = self.open()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/Django-1.8.7-py3.4.egg/django/core/mail/backends/smtp.py", line 58, in open
self.connection = connection_class(self.host, self.port, **connection_params)
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/smtplib.py", line 242, in __init__
(code, msg) = self.connect(host, port)
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/smtplib.py", line 321, in connect
self.sock = self._get_socket(host, port, self.timeout)
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/smtplib.py", line 292, in _get_socket
self.source_address)
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/socket.py", line 494, in create_connection
for res in getaddrinfo(host, port, 0, SOCK_STREAM):
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/socket.py", line 533, in getaddrinfo
for res in _socket.getaddrinfo(host, port, family, type, proto, flags):
socket.gaierror: [Errno -2] Name or service not known
Note: I am working behind a proxy.
In addition, I tried to connect to google.com through socket:
import socket
socket.gethostbyname('www.google.com')
It throws:
[Errno 11001] getaddrinfo failed
