Weblate setup SES email for password reset - django

Question

I tried to set up a Weblate instance on AWS to send password reset emails. I followeed the following steps:
pip install boto
pip install django-ses
sudo vim /opt/bitnami/apps/django/lib/python3.7/site-packages/Django-2.1.4-py3.7.egg/django/conf/global_settings.py
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django_ses.SESBackend'
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID = 'xxxx'
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY = 'xxx'
However it still doesn't work properly and I'm not getting any errors. my AWS key has a full permission to SES.
Update:
If i run send_mail from ./manage.py shell I get this output:
>>> send_mail('Subject here', 'Here is the message.', 'xx#gmail.com',['xx#gmail.com'], fail_silently=False)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
File "/opt/bitnami/apps/weblate/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/core/mail/__init__.py", line 60, in send_mail
return mail.send()
File "/opt/bitnami/apps/weblate/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/core/mail/message.py", line 291, in send
return self.get_connection(fail_silently).send_messages([self])
File "/opt/bitnami/apps/weblate/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/core/mail/backends/smtp.py", line 103, in send_messages
new_conn_created = self.open()
File "/opt/bitnami/apps/weblate/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/core/mail/backends/smtp.py", line 63, in open
self.connection = self.connection_class(self.host, self.port, **connection_params)
File "/opt/bitnami/python/lib/python3.7/smtplib.py", line 251, in __init__
(code, msg) = self.connect(host, port)
File "/opt/bitnami/python/lib/python3.7/smtplib.py", line 336, in connect
self.sock = self._get_socket(host, port, self.timeout)
File "/opt/bitnami/python/lib/python3.7/smtplib.py", line 307, in _get_socket
self.source_address)
File "/opt/bitnami/python/lib/python3.7/socket.py", line 727, in create_connection
raise err
File "/opt/bitnami/python/lib/python3.7/socket.py", line 716, in create_connection
sock.connect(sa)
ConnectionRefusedError: [Errno 111] Connection refused

Answer 1

You're editing Django default settings, which is weird way to change configuration, but it seems that Bitnami is recommending this approach. It seems the setting is not applied properly as the test command still uses default SMTP backend.
Things to check:
is setting actually applied: ./manage.py shell -c 'from django.conf import settings; print(settings.EMAIL_BACKEND)'
was django-ses installed into system? better run the installation as root sudo pip install django-ses
aren't you mixing Python 2 and Python 3 environments (not sure how this is done in Bitnami images)