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.. _django-templates:
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Using Django templates for email
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ESP's templating languages and merge capabilities are generally not compatible
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with each other, which can make it hard to move email templates between them.
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But since you're working in Django, you already have access to the
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extremely-full-featured :doc:`Django templating system <django:topics/templates>`.
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You don't even have to use Django's template syntax: it supports other
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template languages (like Jinja2).
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You're probably already using Django's templating system for your HTML pages,
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so it can be an easy decision to use it for your email, too.
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To compose email using *Django* templates, you can use Django's
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:func:`~django.template.loader.render_to_string`
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template shortcut to build the body and html.
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Example that builds an email from the templates ``message_subject.txt``,
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``message_body.txt`` and ``message_body.html``:
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.. code-block:: python
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from django.core.mail import EmailMultiAlternatives
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from django.template.loader import render_to_string
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merge_data = {
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'ORDERNO': "12345", 'TRACKINGNO': "1Z987"
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}
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subject = render_to_string("message_subject.txt", merge_data).strip()
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text_body = render_to_string("message_body.txt", merge_data)
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html_body = render_to_string("message_body.html", merge_data)
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msg = EmailMultiAlternatives(subject=subject, from_email="store@example.com",
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to=["customer@example.com"], body=text_body)
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msg.attach_alternative(html_body, "text/html")
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msg.send()
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Tip: use Django's :ttag:`{% autoescape off %}<autoescape>` template tag in your
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plaintext ``.txt`` templates to avoid inappropriate HTML escaping.
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Helpful add-ons
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---------------
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These (third-party) packages can be helpful for building your email
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in Django:
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* :pypi:`django-templated-mail`, :pypi:`django-mail-templated`, or :pypi:`django-mail-templated-simple`
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for building messages from sets of Django templates.
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* :pypi:`django-pony-express` for a class-based approach to building messages
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from a Django template.
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* :pypi:`emark` for building messages from Markdown.
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* :pypi:`premailer` for inlining css before sending
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* :pypi:`BeautifulSoup`, :pypi:`lxml`, or :pypi:`html2text` for auto-generating plaintext from your html
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