A utility app for sending HTML emails in Django 1.7+:

• Uses HTML Email Boilerplate v0.5
• Inlines CSS (per the boilerplate's instructions) using pynliner.

For Python 3, first run:

pip install git+https://github.com/dcramer/pynliner@python3

before proceeding to get a Python 3-compatible version of pyliner.

Install this module:

# pip install django-html-emailer # not working yet...

pip install git+https://this-repository-url

Add htmlemailer to your INSTALLED_APPS.

Here's a quick example for how to send a message:

from htmlemailer import send_mail

send_mail(
	"htmlemailer/example",
	"My Site <mysite@example.org>",
	["you@recipient.com"],
	{
		"my_message": "Hello & good day to you!"
	})

Replace the recipient address with your email address. This should send you a message using the example template.

Copy the example base template files into your project (and name them as you like). These files provide a place to set default styling, footer text, etc. that apply across all of your emails, like base.html does for your web templates. You can name the files anything you like, since the name will be specified in an {% extends ... %} template tag in the actual email templates.

• htmlemailer/templates/htmlemailer/example_template.txt
• htmlemailer/templates/htmlemailer/example_template.html

Copy the example email files into your project (and name them as you like) to provide the content for particular emails.

• htmlemailer/templates/htmlemailer/example.txt
• htmlemailer/templates/htmlemailer/example.html
• htmlemailer/templates/htmlemailer/example_subject.txt

The email templates (example.txt, exmaple.html) specify the path to the base templates (example_template.txt, example_template.html) in an {% extends ... %} template tag, so you'll need to update the paths there to where you put your base templates. Then update the path in the send_mail call to specify the location of your email templates.

send_mail also takes an optional fail_silently boolean argument (default is False), and it passes other keyword arguments on to Django's EmailMessage constructor, so you can also pass headers and connection.

If DEFAULT_TEMPLATE_CONTEXT is set in your settings, then it should be a dictionary with default template context variables passed into your email templates.

This project and the (upstream) boilerplate code are available under the MIT license.