jemail 0.1a3

Django app to store emails in db

Jemail

Django app to store emails in db

Installation

pip install jemail
pip install django-anymail[sendgrid]

Anymail used as email backend, for now jemail tested only with sendgrid backend.

Update settings with:

EMAIL_BACKEND = "anymail.backends.sendgrid.EmailBackend"

# defaults
JEMAIL = {
    "METADATA_ID_KEY": "message_id",  # tag name for EmailMessage.pk in message metadata
    "HTML_MESSAGE_UPLOAD_TO": "emails/messages/",  # path to save html messages to
    "ATTACHMENT_UPLOAD_TO": "emails/attachments/",  # path to save attachments to
    # "IMPORT_HTML_MESSAGE_UPLOAD_TO": "myproject.utils.message_upload_to",  # callable option
    # "IMPORT_ATTACHMENT_UPLOAD_TO": "myproject.utils.attachment_upload_to",  # callable option
}

Usage

from jemail import EmailMessage, EmailAttachment

# save email in db
EmailMessage.objects.create_with_objects(
    to=["[e-mail]"],
    subject="Subject",
    # if body not provided it derived from html_message
    # using html2text library
    body="Hi User,...",
    html_message="<p>Hi User...",
    # the rest is optional
    from_email="[e-mail]",
    cc=["[e-mail]"],
    bcc=["[e-mail]"],
    attachments=[
        EmailAttachment.objects.create(
            filename="doc.pdf",
            mimetype="application/pdf",
            file=ContentFile(b"...", name="doc.pdf"),
        )
    ],
    reply_to=["Example Team <[e-mail]>"],
    created_by_id=user.pk,
)

# build EmailMultiAlternatives from db
msg = EmailMessage.objects.get(pk=pk).build_message()
# send email
msg.send()

Development

nix-direnv:

echo "use flake" >> .envrc
direnv allow
app.install
pytest

nix:

nix develop
app.install
pytest

uv:

uv -q venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
uv pip install -e .[dev,test]
pre-commit install
pytest