debugging not working logging mail_admins configuration

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This is my temporary dev logging configuration:

LOGGING = {
    'version': 1,
    'disable_existing_loggers': True,
    'formatters': {
        'verbose': {
            'format': '[{asctime}] {levelname} {name} {message}',
            'style': '{',
        },
    },
    'handlers': {
        'mail_admins': {
            'level': 'ERROR',
            'class': 'django.utils.log.AdminEmailHandler',
            'include_html': True,
        },
        'console': {
            'class': 'logging.StreamHandler',
            'formatter': 'verbose',
        },
    },
    'root': {
        'handlers': ['mail_admins', 'console'],
        'level': 'DEBUG',
        'propagate': True
    }
}

my mail_admins handler didn’t work on a staging server so im trying to troubleshoot what’s going on here. My main question is: how do i debug this? when stepping through e.g. log.error() i’m not seeing where the handlers for the loggers are being run. When i overrode the AdminEmailHandler class and put breakpoint in the send_mail and emit functions, they weren’t even reached.
If you have any tips whatsoever, ill be thankful for them

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I’d say the first thing I’d check is to verify that any sending of emails works within your staging server. Do you have any other facility within that system to send emails you can check? If not, you can try sending an email manually through the Django shell.

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i configured a command line email backend for testing puproses but sending mails with django’s send_mail() works so that’s not an issue