get_connection() fails to initialize

[Alex Gaynor]

> from django.core import mail

> connection = mail.get_connection(backend="django.core.mail.backends.smtp")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/alwaysdata/python/django/1.2.1/django/core/mail/__init__.py", line 41, in get_connection
    return klass(fail_silently=fail_silently, **kwds)
TypeError: 'module' object is not callable

[Karen Tracey]

Shouldn't that be:

>>> from django.core import mail
>>> connection = mail.get_connection(backend="django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend")
>>> connection
<django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend object at 0x013F18D0>
>>>

?

I would expect to pass in the same as what the default setting value is: ​http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/email/#smtp-backend...and that seems to work fine.

[Alex Gaynor]

The documentation says it should be "django.core.mail.backends.smtp" by default: ​http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/settings/#email-backend

That was confusing for me.

I removed
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp'
from settings.py and the problem has gone

[Karen Tracey]

So the settings doc is wrong and needs to be corrected.

[Karen Tracey]

(In [13316]) Fixed #13685: Correct the default value for EMAIL_BACKEND listed in the settings ref.