In your application, create a method on your model class called
render_email. This method takes a User and generates
an email message.
When you save an instance of a model that you want to be emailed,
send a signal to pigeonpost. This signal tells pigeonpost when
to send the message. The instance is added to the queue, with the
render_email method being called for each user immediately
before the message is sent.
A cron job can be used to send any queued messages, using standard django email machinery.
Pigeonpost is suitable for small applications that need to send
emails to subscribed users. The render_email method can contain
any logic you like to decide whether to send a message derived
from a model instance to each user. If you are sending thousands
of emails at once, you should probably not be using pigeons.
The easiest way is to us the pip installer
pip install git+ssh://git@github.com:dragonfly-science/django-pigeonpost.git
- Add
pigeonposttoINSTALLED_APPSin the settings file of your Django application - Make sure that django is set up for sending email. This
typically requires the
EMAIL_HOST,EMAIL_HOST_USER, andEMAIL_HOST_PASSWORDto be set. Other settings include theEMAIL_PORTandEMAIL_USE_TLS.
In order to use pigeonpost, you need to write a render_email method for
models whose instances you would like to be sent to users. This method takes
a User instance. It is expected to return an EmailMessage instance (from django.core.mail),
with the mail to address being the email address of the user. If it returns None, then no
message will be sent to the user. If it returns anything other than None or and EmailMessage
then an exception will be raised.
When the message is ready to be put on the queue, send a pigeonpost_signal to
let pigeonpost know what to do. This signal takes a scheduled_time argument
that allows the message to be deferred.
Maybe you should use this other django mailing solution by James Tauber.
The kereru or New Zealand wood pigeon is a large fruit-eating forest pigeon, endemic to New Zealand. The population declined considerably duing the 20th century, due to pressure form habitat destruction and from introduced mammalian pests. while it is beautiful bird, it is a clumsy, noisy flyer. As far as we know, it has not been used for carrying either letters or email.
