Anymail: Django email backends for Mailgun, Postmark, SendGrid, SparkPost and more

PRE-1.0

Although several projects are using this package in production, the API and feature set are still evolving, and the package has not yet reached 1.0 status. Before 1.0, minor version bumps might include breaking changes (following semantic versioning rules). Please check the release notes

Anymail integrates several transactional email service providers (ESPs) into Django, with a consistent API that lets you use ESP-added features without locking your code to a particular ESP.

It currently fully supports Mailgun, Postmark, SendGrid, and SparkPost, and has limited support for Mandrill.

Anymail normalizes ESP functionality so it "just works" with Django's built-in django.core.mail package. It includes:

• Support for HTML, attachments, extra headers, and other features of Django's built-in email
• Extensions that make it easy to use extra ESP functionality, like tags, metadata, and tracking, with code that's portable between ESPs
• Simplified inline images for HTML email
• Normalized sent-message status and tracking notification, by connecting your ESP's webhooks to Django signals
• "Batch transactional" sends using your ESP's merge and template features

Anymail is released under the BSD license. It is extensively tested against Django 1.8--1.11 (including Python 2.7, Python 3 and PyPy). Anymail releases follow semantic versioning.

Resources

• Full documentation: https://anymail.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
• Package on PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-anymail
• Project on Github: https://github.com/anymail/django-anymail

Anymail 1-2-3

This example uses Mailgun, but you can substitute Postmark or SendGrid or SparkPost or any other supported ESP where you see "mailgun":

1. Install Anymail from PyPI:

   $ pip install django-anymail[mailgun]

   (The [mailgun] part installs any additional packages needed for that ESP. Mailgun doesn't have any, but some other ESPs do.)

2. Edit your project's settings.py:

   INSTALLED_APPS = [
       # ...
       "anymail",
       # ...
   ]
   
   ANYMAIL = {
       # (exact settings here depend on your ESP...)
       "MAILGUN_API_KEY": "<your Mailgun key>",
       "MAILGUN_SENDER_DOMAIN": 'mg.example.com',  # your Mailgun domain, if needed
   }
   EMAIL_BACKEND = "anymail.backends.mailgun.EmailBackend"  # or sendgrid.EmailBackend, or...
   DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = "you@example.com"  # if you don't already have this in settings

3. Now the regular Django email functions will send through your chosen ESP:

   from django.core.mail import send_mail
   
   send_mail("It works!", "This will get sent through Mailgun",
             "Anymail Sender <from@example.com>", ["to@example.com"])

   You could send an HTML message, complete with an inline image, custom tags and metadata:

   from django.core.mail import EmailMultiAlternatives
   from anymail.message import attach_inline_image_file
   
   msg = EmailMultiAlternatives(
       subject="Please activate your account",
       body="Click to activate your account: http://example.com/activate",
       from_email="Example <admin@example.com>",
       to=["New User <user1@example.com>", "account.manager@example.com"],
       reply_to=["Helpdesk <support@example.com>"])
   
   # Include an inline image in the html:
   logo_cid = attach_inline_image_file(msg, "/path/to/logo.jpg")
   html = """<img alt="Logo" src="cid:{logo_cid}">
             <p>Please <a href="http://example.com/activate">activate</a>
             your account</p>""".format(logo_cid=logo_cid)
   msg.attach_alternative(html, "text/html")
   
   # Optional Anymail extensions:
   msg.metadata = {"user_id": "8675309", "experiment_variation": 1}
   msg.tags = ["activation", "onboarding"]
   msg.track_clicks = True
   
   # Send it:
   msg.send()

See the full documentation for more features and options.