Start of the mail backend for djrill.

djrill/mail/backends/djrill.py

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+from django.conf import settings
+from django.core.exceptions import ImproperlyConfigured
+from django.core.mail.backends.base import BaseEmailBackend
+
+
+class DjrillBackend(BaseEmailBackend):
+    """
+    Mandrill API Email Backend
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, fail_silently=False, **kwargs):
+        """
+        Set the API key, API url and set the action url.
+        """
+        super(DjrillBackend, self).__init__(**kwargs)
+        self.api_key = getattr(settings, "MANDRILL_API_KEY", None)
+        self.api_url = getattr(settings, "MANDRILL_API_URL", None)
+
+        if not self.api_key:
+            raise ImproperlyConfigured("You have not set your mandrill api key "
+                "in the settings.py file.")
+        if not self.api_url:
+            raise ImproperlyConfigured("You have not added the Mandrill api "
+                "url to your settings.py")
+
+        self.api_action = self.api_url + "/messages/send.json"
+
+    def open(self):
+        """
+        Ping the Mandrill API to make sure they are up
+        and that we have a valid API key and sender.
+        """
+        pass
+
+    def send_messages(self, email_messages):
+        pass