diff --git a/pinaxcon/settings.py b/pinaxcon/settings.py
index ed450c6b193180afa3abf70b35698af2d9dbfea8..ef557aa6f29299d77f8af63ce1408c41606e1161 100644
--- a/pinaxcon/settings.py
+++ b/pinaxcon/settings.py
@@ -229,6 +229,8 @@ INSTALLED_APPS = [
 
     # stylesheets and js
     'compressor',
+
+    'email_log',
 ]
 
 # A sample logging configuration. The only tangible logging
@@ -270,7 +272,8 @@ FIXTURE_DIRS = [
 
 # Heroku: Get email configuration from environment variables.
 
-EMAIL_BACKEND = os.environ.get("DJANGO_EMAIL_BACKEND", "django.core.mail.backends.console.EmailBackend")  # noqa
+EMAIL_BACKEND = "email_log.backends.EmailBackend"
+EMAIL_LOG_BACKEND = os.environ.get("DJANGO_EMAIL_BACKEND", "django.core.mail.backends.console.EmailBackend")  # noqa
 EMAIL_HOST = os.environ.get("DJANGO_EMAIL_HOST", "")
 EMAIL_PORT = int(os.environ.get("DJANGO_EMAIL_PORT", 25))
 EMAIL_HOST_USER = os.environ.get("DJANGO_EMAIL_HOST_USER", "")
diff --git a/requirements/base.txt b/requirements/base.txt
index 94f429e82e3ffe530849e51bfb7e938515b795c6..a5d6b4e29939d987703712f606560c05fa517cc1 100644
--- a/requirements/base.txt
+++ b/requirements/base.txt
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ easy-thumbnails==2.4.1
 django-timezone-field==2.0
 django-model-utils==3.0.0
 wiki==0.3b3
-
+django-email-log==0.2.0
 
 # For testing
 django-nose==1.4.4