django-huey-email-backend

A simple Django email backend which uses Huey.

Usage

Add the app to your settings:

# settings.py

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    "huey.contrib.djhuey",
    "hueymail",
    ...
]

and use it as your email backend:

# settings.py

EMAIL_BACKEND = 'hueymail.backends.EmailBackend'

Last, choose which email backend Huey should dispatch to via the HUEY_EMAIL_BACKEND setting:

# settings.py

HUEY_EMAIL_BACKEND = "django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend"

How it works

What happens when you send an email? Basically this:

• Django creates a new instance of hueymail.backends.EmailBackend, and calls its send_messages() method with the email messages it wants to send.
• The send_messages() method of the hueymail.backends.EmailBackend instance dispatches a Huey task called dispatch_messages(), which is responsible for sending those messages.
• The dispatch_messages() task creates an instance of HUEY_EMAIL_BACKEND and calls its send_messages() method with the original email messages.

License

Copyright (c) 2022 Christopher McDonald

Distributed under the terms of the MIT license.