django-emailer

Template based email sending with SMTP connection management. Use this along with your transactional email sending provider.

Install

Get ready for a long process.

$ pip install django-emailer

Add 'emailer' to your INSTALLED_APPS setting then migrate/sync emailer models into the database.

$ python manage.py syncdb

Done.

How to use

You now have two new entities to play with: ConnectionProfile and EmailTemplate. Reach them through Django's admin to configure new SMTP connections to use and set up your email templates as such:

• Name: uppercase, underscode-separated words, invariable name to define your template.
• Connection profile: the STMP connection profile you created.
• Base template name: set a different one of yours if you need a fancy email template. Otherwise, email/default.html is just fine.
• Subject: your email subject. Accepts Django context dictionary.
• Content: you email body. Will be rendered into the {{ content }} template variable. Accepts Django context dictionary, of course.

emailer has a very simple API, usable as follows:

from emailer.models import EmailTemplate


email = EmailTemplate.get('YOUR_EMAIL_TEMPLATE_NAME').render(
	to='recipient@example.com',
	context={
		'customer_name': 'John Doe',
	})
email.send()

Note that the context argument will be used for both the subject and content of your email.

Protip: Load your email templates into a fixture to ease the deploy process. You may also need to have them dumped into test fixtures if you [hopefully] write unit tests to your application.