How can I make my django app with password reset fail gracefully when email is not configured?

If I use Django's password reset in a template like this

<li><a href="{% url django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset %}">Forgot password?</a></li>

then if I don't have an email server configured, it will still offer to send an email and won't even error when it d开发者_开发技巧oesn't.

Is there any way to make this less confusing for the user?

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There is no way to display an error based upon how the Django password reset is written (check out save() in PasswordResetForm in ./django/contrib/auth/forms.py), Django is just assuming mail works.

The less confusing way would be to hide the password reset functionality entirely rather than attempt to error handle a missing email server; Django really has no way of telling whether or not the email server is correctly configured.