Configured a email mail box on webfaction now how do I get the settings for Django

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I have never sent an email from my website and now it seems like I would need to send an email through my website preferabbly through the email account that comes with webfaction. So I just created a new mailbox and then went into the webmail to log in with that account and I was happy to find that I can successfully send email messages. Now my question is how can I get the settings so my django website can also send emails through that account. Seems like I would need the following settings

EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.webfaction.com'
EMAIL_PORT = 1025
EMAIL_HOST_USER = mailbox name
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = password'
EMAIL_USE_TLS = False

Then I would send an email using the following code

email = EmailMessage('Hello', 'World', to=['myself@gmail.com'])
 email.send()

However I get an exception saying

  [Errno 61] Connection refused

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The ports for the SMTP server are 25 (Standard), 465 (Secure/SSL), and 587 (Secure/TLS). You should be able to send email with the settings as specified in the documentation at https://docs.webfaction.com/software/django/getting-started.html#configuring-django-to-send-email-messages.

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answered 09 Oct '16, 19:57

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