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Anymail: Multi-ESP transactional email for Django
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.. This README is reused in multiple places:
* Github: project page, exactly as it appears here
* Docs: shared-intro section gets included in docs/index.rst
quickstart section gets included in docs/quickstart.rst
* PyPI: project page (via setup.py long_description),
with several edits to freeze it to the specific PyPI release
(see long_description_from_readme in setup.py)
You can use docutils 1.0 markup, but *not* any Sphinx additions.
.. default-role:: literal
.. _shared-intro:
.. This shared-intro section is also included in docs/index.rst
Anymail integrates several transactional email service providers (ESPs) into Django,
using a consistent API that makes it (relatively) easy to switch between ESPs.
It currently supports Mailgun and Mandrill. Postmark and SendGrid are coming soon.
.. attention:: **EARLY DEVELOPMENT**
This project is undergoing rapid development to get to a 1.0 release.
You should expect frequent, possibly-breaking changes until 1.0 alpha.
If you are migrating to Anymail from `Djrill <https://github.com/brack3t/Djrill>`_,
there are `notes on porting <https://anymail.readthedocs.org/en/latest/esps/mandrill/#migrating-from-djrill>`_
Anymail normalizes ESP functionality so it "just works" with Django's
built-in `django.core.mail` package. It includes:
* Support for HTML, attachments, extra headers, and other features of
`Django's built-in email <https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/stable/topics/email/>`_
* Extensions that make it easy to use extra ESP functionality, like tags, metadata,
and tracking, using code that's portable between ESPs
* Optional support for ESP delivery status notification via webhooks and Django signals
* Optional support for inbound email
Anymail is released under the BSD license. It is tested against Django 1.8--1.9
(including Python 3 and PyPy).
Djrill uses `semantic versioning <http://semver.org/>`_.
.. END shared-intro
.. image:: https://travis-ci.org/anymail/django-anymail.png?branch=master
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:alt: build status on Travis-CI
**Resources**
* Full documentation: https://anymail.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
* Package on PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-anymail
* Project on Github: https://github.com/anymail/django-anymail
Anymail 1-2-3
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.. _quickstart:
.. This quickstart section is also included in docs/quickstart.rst
This example uses Mailgun, but you can substitute Postmark or SendGrid
or any other supported ESP where you see "mailgun":
1. Install Anymail from PyPI, including the ESP(s) you want to use:
.. code-block:: console
$ pip install anymail[mailgun] # or anymail[postmark,sendgrid] or ...
2. Edit your project's ``settings.py``:
.. code-block:: python
INSTALLED_APPS = (
...
"anymail"
)
ANYMAIL = {
"MAILGUN_API_KEY": "<your Mailgun key>",
}
EMAIL_BACKEND = "anymail.backends.mailgun.MailgunBackend" # or sendgrid.SendGridBackend, or...
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = "you@example.com" # if you don't already have this in settings
3. Now the regular `Django email functions <https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/stable/topics/email/>`_
will send through your chosen ESP:
.. code-block:: python
from django.core.mail import send_mail
send_mail("It works!", "This will get sent through Mailgun",
"Anymail Sender <from@example.com>", ["to@example.com"])
You could send an HTML message, complete with an inline image,
custom tags and metadata:
.. code-block:: python
from django.core.mail import EmailMultiAlternatives
from anymail.message import attach_inline_image
msg = EmailMultiAlternatives(
subject="Please activate your account",
body="Click to activate your account: http://example.com/activate",
from_email="Example <admin@example.com>",
to=["New User <user1@example.com>", "account.manager@example.com"],
reply_to=["Helpdesk <support@example.com>"])
# Include an inline image in the html:
logo_cid = attach_inline_image(msg, open("logo.jpg", "rb").read())
html = """<img alt="Logo" src="cid:{logo_cid}">
<p>Please <a href="http://example.com/activate">activate</a>
your account</p>""".format(logo_cid=logo_cid)
msg.attach_alternative(html, "text/html")
# Optional Anymail extensions:
msg.metadata = {"user_id": "8675309", "experiment_variation": 1}
msg.tags = ["activation", "onboarding"]
msg.track_clicks = True
# Send it:
msg.send()
.. END quickstart
See the `full documentation <https://anymail.readthedocs.org/en/latest/>`_
for more features and options.