diff --git a/dpaste/settings_local.example.py b/dpaste/settings_local.example.py
index f5a2855..6c2c3ad 100644
--- a/dpaste/settings_local.example.py
+++ b/dpaste/settings_local.example.py
@@ -19,4 +19,4 @@ DATABASES = {
 
 SECRET_KEY = 'changeme'
 
-EMAIL_BACKEND = 'dpaste.smtp.EmailBackend'
+EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.console.EmailBackend'
diff --git a/dpaste/smtp.py b/dpaste/smtp.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 2dbfcea..0000000
--- a/dpaste/smtp.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,57 +0,0 @@
-"""sendmail email backend class."""
-
-import threading
-
-from django.core.mail.backends.base import BaseEmailBackend
-from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
-
-
-class EmailBackend(BaseEmailBackend):
-    """
-    EmailBackend that uses a local 'sendmail' binary instead of a local
-    SMTP daemon.
-    """
-    def __init__(self, fail_silently=False, **kwargs):
-        super(EmailBackend, self).__init__(fail_silently=fail_silently)
-        self._lock = threading.RLock()
-
-    def open(self):
-        return True
-
-    def close(self):
-        pass
-
-    def send_messages(self, email_messages):
-        """
-        Sends one or more EmailMessage objects and returns the number of email
-        messages sent.
-        """
-        if not email_messages:
-            return
-        self._lock.acquire()
-        try:
-            num_sent = 0
-            for message in email_messages:
-                sent = self._send(message)
-                if sent:
-                    num_sent += 1
-        finally:
-            self._lock.release()
-        return num_sent
-
-    def _send(self, email_message):
-        """A helper method that does the actual sending."""
-        if not email_message.recipients():
-            return False
-        try:
-            ps = Popen(["sendmail"]+list(email_message.recipients()), \
-                       stdin=PIPE)
-            ps.stdin.write(email_message.message().as_string())
-            ps.stdin.flush()
-            ps.stdin.close()
-            return not ps.wait()
-        except:
-            if not self.fail_silently:
-                raise
-            return False
-        return True
diff --git a/dpaste/urls/dpaste.py b/dpaste/urls/dpaste.py
index 13f4dcd..b9ae171 100644
--- a/dpaste/urls/dpaste.py
+++ b/dpaste/urls/dpaste.py
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 from django.conf.urls.defaults import url, patterns
 
+from . import views
+
 urlpatterns = patterns('dpaste.views',
     url(r'^$', 'snippet_new', name='snippet_new'),
     url(r'^guess/$', 'guess_lexer', name='snippet_guess_lexer'),