django-db-mailer 2.0.b7

Django module to easily send emails using django templates stored on database.

What's that
-----------
| Django module to easily send emails using django templates stored on database.
| From box you can use it with django-celery for send background messages.
| Also you have opportunity to create reports from logs by mail categories and slug.
| Groups with Recipients and send by model signal also available by default.
| That app very simple to install and use on your projects.


Installation:
-------------

1. Using pip:

.. code-block:: bash

$ pip install django-db-mailer

2. Add the ``dbmail`` application to ``INSTALLED_APPS`` in your settings file (usually ``settings.py``)
3. Sync database (``./manage.py syncdb`` or ``./manage.py migrate``).

**Important:** South 1.0 or greater is required to run migrations.


Usage examples
--------------

.. code-block:: python

from dbmail.models import MailTemplate
from dbmail import send_db_mail

# New dbmail template
MailTemplate.objects.create(
name="Site welcome template",
subject="Welcome",
message="Welcome to our site. We are glad to see you.",
slug="welcome",
is_html=False,
)

# Send message with created template
send_db_mail(
# slug was defined on db template
slug='welcome',

# recipient can be list, or str separated with comma or simple string
# '[e-mail]' or '[e-mail], [e-mail]' or
# ['[e-mail]', '[e-mail]'] or string Mail group slug
recipient='[e-mail]',

# All *args params will be accessible on template context
{
'username': request.user.username,
'full_name': request.user.get_full_name(),
'signup_date': request.user.date_joined
},

# You can access to all model fields. For m2m and fk fields, you should use module_name
MyModel.objects.get(pk=1),

# Optional kwargs:
# from_email='[e-mail]'
# cc=['[e-mail]'],
# bcc=['[e-mail]'],
# user=User.objects.get(pk=1),
#
# language='ru',
#
# attachments=[(filename, content, mimetype)],
# files=['hello.jpg', 'world.png'],
# headers={'Custom-Header':'Some value'},
#
# queue='default',
# retry_delay=300,
# max_retries=3,
# retry=True,
# time_limit=30,
# send_after=60,
#
# use_celery=True,
)


Local demo installation
-----------------------

.. code-block:: bash

$ sudo apt-get install -y virtualenvwrapper redis-server || brew install pyenv-virtualenvwrapper redis
$ mkvirtualenv db-mailer
$ workon db-mailer
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LPgenerator/django-db-mailer.git db-mailer
$ cd db-mailer
$ python setup.py develop
$ cd demo
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
$ python manage.py syncdb --noinput
$ python manage.py migrate --noinput
$ python manage.py createsuperuser --username admin --email [e-mail]
$ python manage.py runserver >& /dev/null &
$ python manage.py celeryd -Q default >& /dev/null &


Open Shell:

.. code-block:: bash

$ python manage.py shell_plus --print-sql


Create new template:

.. code-block:: python

from dbmail.models import MailTemplate
from dbmail import send_db_mail

MailTemplate.objects.create(
name="Site welcome template",
subject="Welcome",
message="Welcome to our site. We are glad to see you.",
slug="welcome",
is_html=False,
)


Try to send test email with created template (without celery):

.. code-block:: python

send_db_mail('welcome', '[e-mail]', use_celery=False)


Send email using celery:

.. code-block:: python

send_db_mail('welcome', '[e-mail]')


Check mail logs:

.. code-block:: python

from pprint import pprint
from django.forms.models import model_to_dict
from dbmail.models import MailLog

pprint([model_to_dict(obj) for obj in MailLog.objects.all()])


Open app on browser:

.. code-block:: bash

$ xdg-open http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/dbmail/ >& /dev/null || open http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/dbmail/ >& /dev/null


Additional information
----------------------

**Revision**

For support template reversion, you can install ``django-reversion``.
Find information about compatibility with your Django versions `here <http://django-reversion.readthedocs.org/en/latest/django-versions.html>`_.

**Editor**

To enable editor, you may install and configure ``django-tinymce`` app.

**Theme**

``django-db-mailer`` supported from box ``django-grappelli`` skin. Information about compatibility available `here <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-grappelli/2.5.3>`_.

**Queue**

Install and configure ``django-celery`` for background message sending with priorities. You can find celery settings examples on demo project.
We recommended to use ``django-celery-mon`` with ``django-celery`` for monitoring celery and supervisor processes.

**Premailer**

For turns CSS blocks into style attributes, you can install ``premailer`` from PyPi.

**Translation**

For use different language on your mail templates, install ``django-modeltranslation`` or ``grappelli-modeltranslation``.
Add into settings.py:

.. code-block:: python

MODELTRANSLATION_DEFAULT_LANGUAGE = 'en'
MODELTRANSLATION_LANGUAGES = ('ru', 'en')
MODELTRANSLATION_TRANSLATION_FILES = (
'dbmail.translation',
)
INSTALLED_APPS = ('modeltranslation',) + INSTALLED_APPS
# INSTALLED_APPS = ('grappelli', 'grappelli_modeltranslation', 'modeltranslation',) + INSTALLED_APPS


Update dbmail fields:

.. code-block:: bash

$ ./manage.py sync_translation_fields --noinput

**Postmark backend**

Install ``python-postmark`` app via pip. Configure your settings:

.. code-block:: python

POSTMARK_API_KEY = ''
POSTMARK_SENDER = '[e-mail]'
POSTMARK_TEST_MODE = False
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'postmark.django_backend.EmailBackend'


**Older versions**

Very simple version of this app, available `here <https://github.com/LPgenerator/django-db-mailer/tree/1.0>`_.
That version do not include celery settings, bcc, api, mail settings, signals, mail groups and model browser.


**Notes**

All app features available only with ``django-celery`` and with ``Redis``.


External API usage
------------------

.. code-block:: python

from dbmail.models import ApiKey

ApiKey.objects.create(name='Test', api_key='ZzriUzE')


.. code-block:: bash

$ pip install httpie
$ http -f POST http://127.0.0.1:8000/dbmail/api/ api_key=ZzriUzE slug=welcome recipient=[e-mail] data='{"name": "Ivan", "age": 20}'
or
$ apt-get install curl || brew install curl
$ curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:8000/dbmail/api/ --data 'api_key=ZzriUzE&slug=welcome&recipient=[e-mail]'


Screenshots
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.. image:: /screenshots/template_edit.jpg
.. image:: /screenshots/templates_changelist.jpg
.. image:: /screenshots/template_log_changelist.jpg
.. image:: /screenshots/template_log_view.jpg
.. image:: /screenshots/group_change.jpg
.. image:: /screenshots/signal_edit.jpg
.. image:: /screenshots/signals_changelist.jpg
.. image:: /screenshots/apps_view.jpg
.. image:: /screenshots/apps_browse_vars.jpg
.. image:: /screenshots/smtp_changelist.jpg
.. image:: /screenshots/apikey_changelist.jpg
.. image:: /screenshots/bcc_changelist.jpg
.. image:: /screenshots/template_compare.jpg


Compatibility:
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* Python: 2.6, 2.7
* Django: 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7