Will Django send me an email if exception rises at admin site?

Question

Django documentation says:

When DEBUG is False, Django will email the users listed in the ADMINS setting whenever your code raises an unhandled exception and results in an internal server error (HTTP status code 500).

But does this includes django admin site? And if not, how can I enable such reporting?

I'm asking this because when I intensionally rise an Exception at ModelAdmin subclass I receive no email.

On the other hand I tried to send manually and it works fine.

$ ./manage.py shell
>>> from django.core.mail import EmailMessage
>>> email = EmailMessage('Hello', 'World', to=['[email protected]'])
>>> email.send()

UPDATE: Also Django does sends crash reports when exception rises at API part of application (driven by piston).

Any help is much appreciated.

Answer 1

There is nothing special about the admin site in this instance. Django will send you an email when an admin view raises an unhandled exception.

Troubleshooting idea 1

Have you tested whether you receive an email for a non-admin view? Could it be a permissions issue? The webserver might be running as a different user than when you test emailing from the shell.

Troubleshooting idea 2

Where in the ModelAdmin are you raising the exception?

The following example will not work, because the exception is raised when the ModelAdmin class is defined, not when the request is processed.

class MyModelAdmin(ModelAdmin):
    raise Exception

Instead, raise the exception in a method. You should get an email for the following model, if you go to it's change view url (e.g /admin/app/mymodel/)

class MyModelAdmin(ModelAdmin):
    def get_queryset(self, request, queryset):
        raise Exception