An example on how to test emails. The last two lines I would remove before committing to your repository, but if your working on an HTML email the last two lines are nice because you can see what the email would look like.

test_emails.py

from djagno.test import TestCase, Client
from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
from django.core import mail

c = Client()


class TestEmails(TestCase):

    def test_submit_event(self):

        resp = c.post(reverse('submit_event'), {
            'title': 'Test Event',
            'start_0': '2/6/2013',
            'start_1': '1:00 pm',
            'end_0': '2/6/2013',
            'end_1': '2:00 pm',
            'one_off_location': "Gold's Gym (East Wenatchee, WA)",
        })
        self.assertRedirects(resp, 'http://testserver%s' % reverse('submit_event_success'))
        self.assertEqual(len(mail.outbox), 1)
        self.assertEqual(mail.outbox[0].subject, 'New Event Submitted')
        self.assertEqual(mail.outbox[0].to, [u'admin@test.com'])
        self.assertTrue('Test Event' in mail.outbox[0].alternatives[0][0])
        with open('/Users/oconnor/Desktop/temp.html', 'w') as f:
            f.write(mail.outbox[0].alternatives[0][0])