Set up django-celery-email for local dev - django

Question

It seems the best way to send emails from the django-allauth app asynchronously is to simply install django-celery-email. But the packages warns that
This version requires the following versions:Python 2.7 and Python3.5, Django 1.11, 2.1, and 2.2 Celery 4.0
I've only been using python for several months and never encountered a situation where two python version are needed on a project. And I'm using the official recommendation of pipenv for local development. A quick google shows that it isn't possible to have two python interpreters installed in the virtual environment. Since the plugin seems so popular I wondered how others were setting it up? Apologies if I've missed something major that explains this.
A bonus answer would also take into account that I am using docker and the docker image will install the python packages like this.
RUN pipenv install --system --deploy --ignore-pipfile
Many thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I am pretty sure it is just inaccurate description in the project docs, so you need either python 2.7 or python >=3.5 to be installed

Answer 2

In the end I didn't use django-celery-email. It's easy to send the emails generated by the django-allauth app without this package.
I used these resources -
https://github.com/anymail/django-anymail/issues/79
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/topics/email/#defining-a-custom-email-backend
Basically you do this to get it working.
In settings.py define a CustomEmailBackend -
EMAIL_BACKEND = "users.backends.CustomEmailBackend"
In a backend.py file define the backend -
from django.core.mail.backends.base import BaseEmailBackend
from .tasks import async_send_messages
class CustomEmailBackend(BaseEmailBackend):
def send_messages(self, email_messages):
async_send_messages.delay(email_messages)
return len(email_messages)
And this is the task -
from django.core.mail import get_connection
from abstract_base_user.celery import app
#app.task(rety_backoff=True, serializer="pickle")
def async_send_messages(email_messages):
conn = get_connection(backend='anymail.backends.mailgun.EmailBackend')
conn.send_messages(email_messages)
The celery django app should be set up in the standard way as defined at https://docs.celeryproject.org/en/latest/django/first-steps-with-django.html
And the celery settings in the settings.py need include the pickle content type -
CELERY_ACCEPT_CONTENT = ['json', 'pickle']
Obviously you need to include your anytime settings and broker settings too. But this should be enough to get anybody started.