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Add Postal support
Thanks to @tiltec for researching, implementing, testing and documenting it.
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.. _postal-backend:
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Postal
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========
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Anymail integrates with the `Postal`_ self-hosted transactional email platform,
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using their `HTTP email API`_.
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.. _Postal: https://postal.atech.media/
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.. _HTTP email API: https://github.com/postalhq/postal/wiki/Using-the-API
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Settings
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--------
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.. rubric:: EMAIL_BACKEND
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To use Anymail's Postal backend, set:
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.. code-block:: python
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EMAIL_BACKEND = "anymail.backends.postal.EmailBackend"
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in your settings.py.
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.. setting:: ANYMAIL_POSTAL_API_KEY
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.. rubric:: POSTAL_API_KEY
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Required. A Postal API key.
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.. code-block:: python
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ANYMAIL = {
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...
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"POSTAL_API_KEY": "<your api key>",
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}
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Anymail will also look for ``POSTAL_API_KEY`` at the
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root of the settings file if neither ``ANYMAIL["POSTAL_API_KEY"]``
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nor ``ANYMAIL_POSTAL_API_KEY`` is set.
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.. setting:: ANYMAIL_POSTAL_API_URL
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.. rubric:: POSTAL_API_URL
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Required. The base url for calling the Postal API.
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.. setting:: ANYMAIL_POSTAL_WEBHOOK_KEY
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.. rubric:: POSTAL_WEBHOOK_KEY
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Required when using status tracking or inbound webhooks.
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This should be set to the public key of the Postal instance.
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You can find it by running `postal default-dkim-record` on your
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Postal instance.
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Use the part that comes after `p=`, until the semicolon at the end.
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.. _postal-esp-extra:
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esp_extra support
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-----------------
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To use Postal features not directly supported by Anymail, you can
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set a message's :attr:`~anymail.message.AnymailMessage.esp_extra` to
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a `dict` that will be merged into the json sent to Postal's
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`email API`_.
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Example:
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.. code-block:: python
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message.esp_extra = {
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'HypotheticalFuturePostalParam': '2022', # merged into send params
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}
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(You can also set `"esp_extra"` in Anymail's
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:ref:`global send defaults <send-defaults>` to apply it to all
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messages.)
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.. _email API: https://krystal.github.io/postal-api/controllers/send/message
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Limitations and quirks
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----------------------
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Postal does not support a few tracking and reporting additions offered by other ESPs.
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Anymail normally raises an :exc:`~anymail.exceptions.AnymailUnsupportedFeature`
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error when you try to send a message using features that Postal doesn't support
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You can tell Anymail to suppress these errors and send the messages anyway --
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see :ref:`unsupported-features`.
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**Single tag**
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Postal allows a maximum of one tag per message. If your message has two or more
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:attr:`~anymail.message.AnymailMessage.tags`, you'll get an
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:exc:`~anymail.exceptions.AnymailUnsupportedFeature` error---or
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if you've enabled :setting:`ANYMAIL_IGNORE_UNSUPPORTED_FEATURES`,
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Anymail will use only the first tag.
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**No delayed sending**
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Postal does not support :attr:`~anymail.message.AnymailMessage.send_at`.
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**Toggle click-tracking and open-tracking**
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By default, Postal does not enable click-tracking and open-tracking.
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To enable it, `see their docs on click- & open-tracking`_.
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Anymail's :attr:`~anymail.message.AnymailMessage.track_clicks` and
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:attr:`~anymail.message.AnymailMessage.track_opens` settings are unsupported.
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.. _see their docs on click- & open-tracking: https://github.com/postalhq/postal/wiki/Click-&-Open-Tracking
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**Attachments must be named**
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Postal issues an `AttachmentMissingName` error when trying to send an attachment without name.
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.. _postal-templates:
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Batch sending/merge and ESP templates
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-------------------------------------
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Postal does not support batch sending or ESP templates.
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.. _postal-webhooks:
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Status tracking webhooks
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------------------------
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If you are using Anymail's normalized :ref:`status tracking <event-tracking>`, set up
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a webhook in your Postal mail server settings, under Webhooks. The webhook URL is:
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:samp:`https://{yoursite.example.com}/anymail/postal/tracking/`
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* *yoursite.example.com* is your Django site
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Choose all the event types you want to receive.
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Postal signs its webhook payloads. You need to set :setting:`ANYMAIL_POSTAL_WEBHOOK_KEY`.
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If you use multiple Postal mail servers, you'll need to repeat entering the webhook
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settings for each of them.
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Postal will report these Anymail :attr:`~anymail.signals.AnymailTrackingEvent.event_type`\s:
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failed, bounced, deferred, queued, delivered, clicked.
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The event's :attr:`~anymail.signals.AnymailTrackingEvent.esp_event` field will be
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a `dict` of Postal's `webhook <https://github.com/postalhq/postal/wiki/Webhook-Events-&-Payloads>`_ data.
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.. _postal-inbound:
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Inbound webhook
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---------------
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If you want to receive email from Postal through Anymail's normalized :ref:`inbound <inbound>`
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handling, follow Postal's guide to for receiving emails (Help > Receiving Emails) to create an
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incoming route. Then set up an `HTTP Endpoint`, pointing to Anymail's inbound webhook.
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The url will be:
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:samp:`https://{yoursite.example.com}/anymail/postal/inbound/`
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* *yoursite.example.com* is your Django site
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Set `Format` to `Delivered as the raw message`.
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You also need to set :setting:`ANYMAIL_POSTAL_WEBHOOK_KEY` to enable signature validation.
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