django-postie 0.8.3

Django mailing through admin

django-postie

This project allows you to send emails and manage them in the admin panel. By default package uses celery to send emails.

Installation

Update INSTALLED_APPS

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    'postie',
    'parler',
    'codemirror2',
    'ckeditor',
    'des',
    ...
]

Run migrations: `python manage.py migrate`

Available settings

POSTIE_TEMPLATE_CHOICES - Tuple of tuples. Where the first value is the value to use in code and second is verbose(translated).

POSTIE_TEMPLATE_CONTEXTS - dictionary with template choices as keys and dictionaries as values

For example:

POSTIE_TEMPLATE_CONTEXTS = {
    'mail_event': {
        'context_var1': _('Context variable 1 description'),
        'context_vae2': _('Context variable 2 user description'),
        ...
    },
    ...
}

POSTIE_INSTANT_SEND - whether to send letters instantly or to use celery task. If False celery is required.

POSTIE_HTML_ADMIN_WIDGET - dictionary with default widget for HTML field in Template model in django admin interface

For example:

POSTIE_HTML_ADMIN_WIDGET = {
    'widget': 'TinyMCE',
    'widget_module': 'tinymce',
    'attrs': {'attrs': {'cols': 80, 'rows': 10}}
}

POSTIE_DEBUG_MODE - controls whether to raise exceptions on send_mail. By default equals DEBUG

Basic example to use:

# your_module.py

from postie.shortcuts import send_mail

send_mail(
    event='MAIL_EVENT',
    recipients=['[e-mail]', '[e-mail]'],
    context={
        'var1': 'variable context',
        'var2': 'another value'
    },
    from_email='[e-mail]',
    attachments=[{
        'file_name': open('path-to-the-file')
    }]
)

Full documentation check here - https://cyberbudy.gitlab.io/django-postie/