Django MailerSend

Django MailerSend makes it easier to send emails in Django apps using the MailerSend API. Uses the official MailerSend Python SDK internally.

Index

• Installation
• Configuration
• Usage
  • Text Only Emails
  • Text + HTML Emails
  • Attachments

Installation

pip install django-mailersend

Configuration

Add the following to your Django settings:

EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django_mailersend.backend.MailerSendEmailBackend'
MAILERSEND_API_KEY = 'Your API key'

Usage

Text Only Emails

• Send a Text Only email using Django's send_mail function:

from django.core.mail import send_mail

send_mail(
  subject='Hello world!',
  message='Sent using the Django MailerSend Email Backend!',
  from_email='sender@example.com',
  recipient_list=['receiver@example.com']
)

• Send a Text Only email using Django's EmailMessage class for more options:

from django.core.mail.message import EmailMessage

email_message = EmailMessage(
  subject='Hello world!',
  body='Sent using the Django MailerSend Email Backend!',
  from_email='sender@example.com',
  to=['receiver@example.com'],
  bcc=['bcc@example.com'], # Optional
  cc=['cc@example.com'], # Optional
  reply_to=['reply-to@example.com'] # Optional
)
email_message.send()

Text + HTML Emails

• Send a Text + HTML email using Django's send_mail function:

from django.core.mail import send_mail

send_mail(
  subject='Hello world!',
  message='Sent using the Django MailerSend Email Backend!',
  from_email='sender@example.com',
  recipient_list=['receiver@example.com'],
  html_message='<p>Sent using <strong>Django MailerSend Email Backend</strong>!</p>'
)

• Send a Text + HTML email using Django's EmailMultiAlternatives class for more options:

from django.core.mail.message import EmailMultiAlternatives

email_message = EmailMultiAlternatives(
  subject='Hello world!',
  body='Sent using Django MailerSend Email Backend!',
  from_email='sender@example.com',
  to=['receiver@example.com'],
  bcc=['bcc@example.com'], # Optional
  cc=['cc@example.com'], # Optional
  reply_to=['reply-to@example.com'] # Optional
)
email_message.attach_alternative(
    '<p>Sent using <strong>Django MailerSend Email Backend</strong>!</p>',
    'text/html'
)
email_message.send()

Attachments

Sending attachments is supported when using Django's EmailMessage or EmailMultiAlternatives classes. There are several ways of doing this:

• Send an attachment by providing the file path to the attach_file method:

from django.core.mail.message import EmailMessage

email_message = EmailMessage(
  subject='Hello world!',
  body='Sent using the Django MailerSend Email Backend!',
  from_email='sender@example.com',
  to=['receiver@example.com']
)
email_message.attach_file('/example/attachment.txt')
email_message.attach_file('/example/attachment.jpg')
email_message.send()

• Send an attachment by providing a filename and the file content to the attach method:

from django.core.mail.message import EmailMessage

email_message = EmailMessage(
  subject='Hello world!',
  body='Sent using the Django MailerSend Email Backend!',
  from_email='sender@example.com',
  to=['receiver@example.com']
)

# Text file (Read mode 'r')
with open('/example/attachment.txt', 'r') as file:
    email_message.attach('attachment.txt', file.read())

# Binary file (Read mode 'rb')
with open('/example/attachment.jpg', 'rb') as file:
    email_message.attach('attachment.jpg', file.read())

email_message.send()

• Send an attachment by providing a MIMEBase instance to the attach method:

from email.mime.image import MIMEImage
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
from django.core.mail.message import EmailMessage

email_message = EmailMessage(
  subject='Hello world!',
  body='Sent using the Django MailerSend Email Backend!',
  from_email='sender@example.com',
  to=['receiver@example.com']
)

# Text file (Read mode 'r')
with open('/example/attachment.txt', 'r') as file:
    mime_text = MIMEText(file.read())
    mime_text.add_header(
      'Content-Disposition', 'attachment; filename=attachment.txt')
    email_message.attach(mime_text)

# Binary file (Read mode 'rb')
with open('/example/attachment.jpg', 'rb') as file:
    mime_image = MIMEImage(file.read())
    mime_image.add_header(
      'Content-Disposition', 'inline; filename=attachment.jpg')
    email_message.attach(mime_image)

email_message.send()

Resources

• Django: https://www.djangoproject.com/
• MailerSend: https://www.mailersend.com/
• MailerSend Python SDK: https://github.com/mailersend/mailersend-python