[Fixed]-Sending email from Django via hosted SMTP

Turns out the problem was that the default SMTP backend in Django does not support SSL, and my SMTP host required it (not just TLS). Fortunately, I found a dirt-simple SSL backend, added EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django_smtp_ssl.SSLEmailBackend' to my settings.py and everything just worked.

The settings below:

EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
EMAIL_HOST = 'mail.yourdomain.com'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'no-reply@yourdomain.com'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'password'
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = EMAIL_HOST_USER

worked for me.
My django version I tested with is 1.8.8.