django-templated-email 0.3.3

A Django oriented templated / transaction email abstraction

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Django-Templated-Email
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:Info: A Django oriented templated email sending class
:Author: Bradley Whittington (http://github.com/bradwhittington, http://twitter.com/darb)

Overview
=================
django-templated-email is oriented towards sending templated emails
intended for use with transactional mailers (ala mailchimp, silverpop,
etc.), but currently comes out of the box with a backend class which
uses django's templating system, and django's core.mail functions.

The send_templated_email method can be thought of as the render_to_response
shortcut for email.

Getting going - installation
=============

Installing::

pip install django-templated-email

You can add the following to your settings.py (but it works out the box)::

TEMPLATED_EMAIL_BACKEND = 'templated_email.backends.vanilla_django.TemplateBackend'

# For the django back-end specifically
TEMPLATED_EMAIL_DJANGO_SUBJECTS = {
'welcome':'Welcome to my website',
}

Getting going - sending your template emails
=============

Example usage using vanilla_django TemplateBackend backend

Python to send mail::

from templated_email import send_templated_mail
send_templated_mail(
template_name='welcome',
from_email='[e-mail]',
recipient_list=['[e-mail]'],
context={
'username':request.user.username,
'full_name':request.user.get_full_name(),
'signup_date':request.user.date_joined
},
headers={'My-Custom-Header':'Custom Value'}
)

**Your template**
The backend will look in *templated_email/welcome.email* ::

{% block subject %}My subject for {{username}}{% endblock %}
{% block plain %}
Hi {{full_name}},

You just signed up for my website, using:
username: {{username}}
join date: {{signup_date}}

Thanks, you rock!
{% endblock %}


If you want to include an HTML part to your emails, simply use the 'html' block ::

{% block html %}
<p>Hi {{full_name}},</p>

<p>You just signed up for my website, using:
<dl>
<dt>username</dt><dd>{{username}}</dd>
<dt>join date</dt><dd>{{signup_date}}</dd>
</dl>
</p>

<p>Thanks, you rock!</p>
{% endblock %}


You can override the template dir, and file extension using the following variables in settings.py ::

TEMPLATED_EMAIL_TEMPLATE_DIR = 'templated_email/' #use '' for top level template dir
TEMPLATED_EMAIL_FILE_EXTENSION = 'email'


**Legacy Behaviour**
The 0.2.x version of the library looked in django template directories/loaders
for *templated_email/welcome.txt* ::

Hey {{full_name}},

You just signed up for my website, using:
username: {{username}}
join date: {{signup_date}}

Thanks, you rock!

It will use *templated_email/welcome.html* for the html part
of the email allowing you to make it so much pretty. It is plausible
that one day there will be support for attachments and inline mime / images

Using PostageApp:
=============

To use the PostageApp (http://postageapp.com) send method, you will need to install python-postageapp::

pip install -e git://github.com/bradwhittington/python-postageapp.git#egg=postageapp

And add the following to your settings.py::

TEMPLATED_EMAIL_BACKEND = 'templated_email.backends.postageapp_backend.TemplateBackend'

POSTAGEAPP_API_KEY = 'yourapikey'

#If you are already using django-postageapp:

EMAIL_POSTAGEAPP_API_KEY = POSTAGEAPP_API_KEY

Using MAILCHIMP STS:
=============

To use the MailChimp STS send method, you will need to install mailsnake (please note, until the main mailsnake has STS support, you need to use my fork)::

pip install -e git://github.com/bradwhittington/mailsnake.git#egg=mailsnake

And add the following to your settings.py::

TEMPLATED_EMAIL_BACKEND = 'templated_email.backends.mailchimp_sts.TemplateBackend'

MAILCHIMP_API_KEY = 'yourapikey'

# For the django back-end specifically
TEMPLATED_EMAIL_MAILCHIMP = {
'welcome':{
'subject':'Welcome to my website',
'track_opens':True,
'track_clicks':False,
'tags':['my','little','pony'],
}
}


.. _Django: http://djangoproject.com