[patch] Support TLS for django mail

Patch to enable TLS support for django.core.mail.send*mail

New version w/ default config variable global_settings

Adding the [patch] prefix to the Summary (and at the same time testing if the whitelisting of IP adddresses in Akismet works :)

This is outside the scope of Django's (very simple) mail-sending framework. The mail-sending framework intentionally does not do many things; for more intensive applications, you can just use Python's smtplib.

This is a problem if your host requires all SMTP connections to be via SSL. Since Django itself relies on this (very-simple) framework to send out broken link and 500 emails, it would be nice if it were equipped to handle this particular setup rather than choke on an smtplib error that my own app can't easily work around.

The patch in #3560 gives support for gmail specificially, the patch in this issue does not.

I am with James on this. Plus, for my own domain I am using googles hosted email service, so I have no longer any access to a non-encrypted SMTP server. Considering google is making this service free this will only be more common in the future I predict.

modified and updated patch against rev 4815, works here with a hosted Google account

(In [5144]) Fixed #2897 -- Added support for TLS connections to email handling. This means servers like Google's SMTP server can now be used for admin emails.