better appearance for the form and a sidebar with mandrill status.

djrill/templates/djrill/senders_list.html

@@ -53,18 +53,31 @@
       {% endif %}
     {% endblock %}
 
-	<p>Add a new sender</p>
+    <div class="module filtered" id="changelist">
+        {% block search %}
+        <div id="toolbar">
 	        <form action="{% url "admin:djrill_add_sender" %}" method="POST">
-		{{ form.as_p }}
+                <label for="id_email" class="addlink">Add a new sender</label>
+                <input type="email" placeholder="E-mail address" name="email" id="id_email">
 		        {% csrf_token %}
 		        <input type="submit" value="Submit">
 	        </form>
+        </div>
+        {% endblock %}
 
-    <div class="module" id="changelist">
-    {% block search %}{% endblock %}
         {% block date_hierarchy %}{% endblock %}
 
-      {% block filters %}{% endblock %}
+      {% block filters %}
+          <div id="changelist-filter">
+            <h2>Tools &amp; Info</h2>
+            <h3>Status</h3>
+            {% if status %}
+            <p>Mandrill is <strong>UP</strong></p>
+            {% else %}
+            <p>Mandrill is <strong>DOWN</strong></p>
+            {% endif %}
+          </div>
+      {% endblock %}
 
       {% block result_list %}
         {% if objects %}

djrill/views.py

@@ -75,27 +75,20 @@ class DjrillSendersListView(DjrillAdminMedia, DjrillApiMixin,
     def get(self, request):
         form = CreateSenderForm()
         objects = self.get_json_objects()
+
+        status = False
+        req = requests.post("%s/%s" % (self.api_url, "users/ping.json"),
+            data={"key": self.api_key})
+        if req.status_code == 200:
+            status = True
+
         return self.render_to_response({
             "objects": json.loads(objects),
             "media": self.media,
-            "form": form
+            "form": form,
+            "status": status
         })
 
-    def post(self, request):
-        form = CreateSenderForm(request.POST or None)
-
-        if form.is_valid():
-            return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse("admin:djrill_senders"))
-
-        objects = self.get_json_objects()
-        return self.render_to_response({
-            "objects": json.loads(objects),
-            "media": self.media,
-            "form": form
-        })
-
-
-
 
 class DjrillSenderView(DjrillApiMixin, View):
     api_action = None

settings/base.py

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ DATABASES = {
 
 #MANDRILL
 MANDRILL_API_KEY = None
-MANDRILL_API_URL = "http://mandrillapp.com/api/1.0/"
+MANDRILL_API_URL = "http://mandrillapp.com/api/1.0"
 
 
 # Local time zone for this installation. Choices can be found here: