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Django-Mailgun

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A Django email backend for use with Mailgun



Overview

=================

Django-Mailgun is a drop-in mail backend for Django_.



Getting going

=============



Install django-mailgun::



    pip install django-mailgun



Add the following to your ``settings.py``::



    EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django_mailgun.MailgunBackend'

    MAILGUN_ACCESS_KEY = 'ACCESS-KEY'

    MAILGUN_SERVER_NAME = 'SERVER-NAME'



Replace ``ACCESS-KEY`` with the "API-KEY" value from your Mailgun account details and

``SERVER-NAME`` with the last part of your "API Base URL"

(eg. https://api.mailgun.net/v3/****), also found in your Mailgun

account details.



Now, when you use ``django.core.mail.send_mail``, Mailgun will send the messages.



.. _Builtin Email Error Reporting: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/howto/error-reporting/

.. _Django: http://djangoproject.com

.. _Mailgun: http://mailgun.net



Extra features

=================



Passing user-specific data

--------------------------



Mailgun also includes the ability to send emails to a group of recipients via a single

API call (https://documentation.mailgun.com/user_manual.html#batch-sending).  To make use of this,

you need to pass Recipient Variables along with your API call.  To do so with Django-Mailgun,

add a valid JSON string to the ``extra_headers`` attribute of ``EmailMessage`` and Django-Mailgun will

remove the string from the headers and send it appropriately.  For example::



    email = EmailMessage('Hi!', 'Cool message for %recipient.first_name%', '[email protected]', [[email protected], [email protected]])

    email.extra_headers['recipient_variables'] = '{"[email protected]":{"first_name":"Joe"}, "[email protected]":{"first_name":"Jane"}}'

    email.send()



When Jane receives her email, its body should read 'Cool message for Jane', and Joe will see

'Cool message for Joe'.



Analytics and other tracking features

-------------------------------------



Mailgun provides the ability to track certain events that concern your emails. The

API exposes these options (see https://documentation.mailgun.com/api-sending.html#sending).  These

options can also be passed to Mailgun's SMTP server (see "Passing Sending Options" under

https://documentation.mailgun.com/user_manual.html#sending-via-smtp). If you add

any of the SMTP options to the ``extra_headers`` attribute of ``EmailMessage``, Django-Mailgun

will map those values over to the appropriate API parameter. For example::



    email = EmailMessage('Hi!', 'Cool message for Joe', '[email protected]', [[email protected]])

    email.extra_headers['X-Mailgun-Tag'] = ['Tag 1', 'Tag 2']

    email.send()



When the email is sent, it will be tagged with 'Tag 1' and 'Tag 2'. You can provide a string for

any value, or a list or tuple that contains strings for options that can take multiple values.



Attaching data to messages

--------------------------



When sending, you can attach data to your messages by passing custom data to X-Mailgun-Variables header

(see https://documentation.mailgun.com/user_manual.html#attaching-data-to-messages).

Data should be formatted as JSON, and it will be included in any webhook event releated to the email

containing the custom data. For example::



    email = EmailMessage('Hi!', 'Cool message for Joe', '[email protected]', [[email protected]])

    email.extra_headers['X-Mailgun-Variables'] = {'my-id': 'email_id', 'my-variable':'variable'}

    email.send()



Later, you can read this data in your Mailgun webhook handler. For example::



    def mailgun_webhook(request):

        email_id = request.data.get('my-id')

        my_variable = request.data.get('my-variable')



        # Do something with your variables



        return Response(status=status.HTTP_200_OK)



*NOTE*: Django-Mailgun does **NOT**

validate your data for compliance with Mailgun's API; it merely maps over whatever values you provide.  For example,

Mailgun's API states that no more than 3 tags are allowed per email, and each tag must be no greater than

128 characters (https://documentation.mailgun.com/user_manual.html#tagging).  If you provide 4 tags,

or a tag longer than 128 characters, Django-Mailgun will attempt to send such (potentially) invalid

data.  You must ensure what you send is appropriate.



Django Email Backend Reference

================================



* http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/email/#e-mail-backends