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When running in development mode, the edx-platform lms puts emails into the logs, rather than sending them via an smtp server. This is configured with the EMAIL_BACKEND setting in lms/envs/common.py, and then overridden in our production environments to point at Amazon SES instead.

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Do you have any documentation that explains how to configure the EMAIL_BACKEND so that the edx-platform will send emails via an smtp server in our office? Also any other parameters that we need to set in order for edx-platform to work properly in our office? Thank you.

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We're using Django 1.4, so https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/topics/email/ should have the information that you need.

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Hi Calen,

Thank you for your quick response. Could you tell me which file or which part of the code I need to modify in order for the email to work? Thanks.

Chi-Hou

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Cale mentioned the file to change above. It's lms/envs/common.py

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Could you tell me how to override the EMAIL_BACKEND setting in lms/envs/common.py to send email via a smtp server? Thanks.

Chi-Hou

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Which log file would it put it into and can you specify the location of this log file on the server?

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