[Python] How can I send email via Django?

In my settings.py file, I have the following:

EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'

# Host for sending e-mail.
EMAIL_HOST = 'localhost'

# Port for sending e-mail.
EMAIL_PORT = 1025

# Optional SMTP authentication information for EMAIL_HOST.
EMAIL_HOST_USER = ''
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = ''
EMAIL_USE_TLS = False


My email code:

from django.core.mail import EmailMessage
email = EmailMessage('Hello', 'World', to=['user@gmail.com'])
email.send()


Of course, if I set up a debugging server via python -m smtpd -n -c DebuggingServer localhost:1025, I can see the email in my terminal.

However, how do I actually send the email not to the debugging server, but to user@gmail.com?

After reading your answers, let me get something straight:

1. 
   Can't you use localhost (simple Ubuntu PC) to send e-mails?
   
   
2. 
   I thought in Django 1.3 send_mail() was somewhat deprecated and EmailMessage.send() was used instead?
   

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