Emails are being sent latest first and I need vice versa

[embedded1]

I'm using the default priority which is Medium and a cron job to pick the emails out
of the queue for sending but emails are being sent lastest first due to "order_by(-priority)"

How can I achieve my goal which is sending out the oldest email in queue first?

thanks for this wonderful library

[embedded1]

An easy solution is to use order_by(priority) and set 0 to be the higher priority(now) and so on.

[selwin]

An easy way to do this would be to change the order_by argument in line 175 to order_by('-priority', 'id') so mails get sent out by priority and from oldest to newest.

I don't want to merge this into post_office because ordering by two columns could be an expensive operation when you have hundreds of thousands or millions of emails to send, but that's how I would do it :).

[embedded1]

I don't want to patch the official release.
Could you please add an option to send out mails based on the created attribute instead of using the priority attribute?

this can be configure using a settings parameter while keeping the default behavior as it now which is by priority.

[selwin]

I suppose we could take an optional SENDING_ORDER so you'd be able to do this:

POST_OFFICE = {
    'SENDING_ORDER': ['-id', '-priority']
}

Pull request welcome :)

[embedded1]

OK, this would be great, for my needs I would order by the created attribute to send emails with the FIFO order.

I will add the pull request.
10x

[embedded1]

pull request submitted.

[selwin]

Fixed in #87