How to set Timeout for sending email using django?
django, email, python, python-2.7
Solution
If it is named `myemailbackend.py` in the folder `django/core/mail/backends`, then your setting would be
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.myemailbackend.MyEmailBackend'
that being said, it is a bad idea to place your code into a Django folder. It is better to place this in an app (say, `my_app/mymailbackend.py`) so that it will not be affected by Django reinstalls and/or upgrades.
Problem
I'm trying to set a timeout for sending email with Django. I'm using django 1.7.3 and python v2.7.6. My aproach was follow the django documentation in here. So what i did was create a custom email backend by creating a file named myemailbackend.py on django/core/mail/backends folder with the following code: ``` from django.core.mail.backends import smtp class MyEmailBackend(smtp.EmailBackend): def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): kwargs.setdefault('timeout', 3) #this is 3 secs, i believe. super(MyEmailBackend, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs) ``` After that in my settings.py i set my EMAIL_BACKEND: ``` # Email setup EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.base.myemailbackend' EMAIL_USE_TLS = True EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com' EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'xxxx@gmail.com' EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'xxx' EMAIL_PORT = 587 # EMAIL_TIMEOUT = 3 # 3 sec, this would be great but i notice that this is not possible since that backend stmp.py doesn't expect to get "EMAIL_TIMEOUT" var. ``` After i runserver i've noticed that this doesn't seem to work, i notice to that myemailbackend.py didn't was compile. What am i'm missing? How can i set a timeout for send email, afterall?