django-anymail 0.3

Django email backends for Mailgun, Postmark, SendGrid and other transactional ESPs

EARLY DEVELOPMENT

This project is undergoing rapid development to get to a 1.0 release. Before 1.0, minor version bumps might include breaking changes. 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, and SendGrid, 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

Support is also planned for:

• Normalized inbound email processing through your ESP

Anymail is released under the BSD license. It is extensively tested against Django 1.8–1.9 (including Python 2.7, Python 3 and PyPy). Anymail releases follow semantic versioning.

Resources

• Full documentation: https://anymail.readthedocs.io/en/v0.3/

• 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 any other supported ESP where you see “mailgun”:

1. Install Anymail from PyPI:

   $ pip install django-anymail

2. Edit your project’s settings.py:

   INSTALLED_APPS = (
       ...
       "anymail"
   )
   
   ANYMAIL = {
       "MAILGUN_API_KEY": "<your Mailgun key>",
   }
   EMAIL_BACKEND = "anymail.backends.mailgun.MailgunBackend"  # or sendgrid.SendGridBackend, or...
   DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = "[e-mail]"  # 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 <[e-mail]>", ["[e-mail]"])

   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 <[e-mail]>",
       to=["New User <[e-mail]>", "[e-mail]"],
       reply_to=["Helpdesk <[e-mail]>"])
   
   # 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.