Pinax is an open-source platform built on the Django Web Framework. It is an ecosystem of reusable Django apps, themes, and starter project templates. This collection can be found at http://pinaxproject.com.

This app was developed as part of the Pinax ecosystem but is just a Django app and can be used independently of other Pinax apps.

django-mailer is a reusable Django app for queuing the sending of email.

Simple usage instructions:

In settings.py:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    "mailer",
    ...
]

EMAIL_BACKEND = "mailer.backend.DbBackend"

Run database migrations to set up the needed database tables.

Then send email in the normal way, as per the Django email docs, and they will be added to the queue.

To actually send the messages on the queue, add this to a cron job file or equivalent:

*       * * * * (/path/to/your/python /path/to/your/manage.py send_mail >> ~/cron_mail.log 2>&1)
0,20,40 * * * * (/path/to/your/python /path/to/your/manage.py retry_deferred >> ~/cron_mail_deferred.log 2>&1)

The django-mailer documentation can be found at http://django-mailer2.readthedocs.org/en/latest/. See usage.rst in the docs for more advanced use cases - https://github.com/pinax/django-mailer/blob/master/docs/usage.rst#usage. The Pinax documentation is available at http://pinaxproject.com/pinax/.

See CONTRIBUTING.rst for information about contributing patches to django-mailer.

In order to foster a kind, inclusive, and harassment-free community, the Pinax Project has a code of conduct, which can be found here http://pinaxproject.com/pinax/code_of_conduct/.

For updates and news regarding the Pinax Project, please follow us on Twitter at @pinaxproject and check out our blog http://blog.pinaxproject.com.