How to send Email with html page in Django? - django

Question

I'm new in Django ! I don't know how to send email in Django. I refer Django documentation but it didn't help me . I need to send email with html page to different users .In models.py i have two values Name and Email. When i click button ,the html page should be send to appropriate user's Email

Answer 1

There are a lot of different solutions how to send emails in django.
You can use even php, or any scripting language if you feel it's complicated to use only python/django code.
Just an example of email utility from custom email subscription:
email_utility.py:
import logging, traceback
from django.urls import reverse
import requests
from django.template.loader import get_template
from django.utils.html import strip_tags
from django.conf import settings
def send_email(data):
try:
url = "https://api.mailgun.net/v3/<domain-name>/messages"
status = requests.post(
url,
auth=("api", settings.MAILGUN_API_KEY),
data={"from": "YOUR NAME <admin#domain-name>",
"to": [data["email"]],
"subject": data["subject"],
"text": data["plain_text"],
"html": data["html_text"]}
)
logging.getLogger("info").info("Mail sent to " + data["email"] + ". status: " + str(status))
return status
except Exception as e:
logging.getLogger("error").error(traceback.format_exc())
return False
Don't forget to create a token which we will verify when user clicks the confirmation link. Token will be encrypted so that no one can tamper the data.
token = encrypt(email + constants.SEPARATOR + str(time.time()))
Also check this link and this.

Answer 2

Here is a naive exemple to leverage django send_mail:
import smtplib
from django.core.mail import send_mail
from django.utils.html import strip_tags
from django.template.loader import render_to_string
#user will be a queryset like:
users = User.objects.all() # or more specific query
subject = 'Subject'
from_email = 'from#xxx.com'
def send_email_to_users(users,subject,from_email):
full_traceback = []
for user in users:
to = [user.email] # list of people you want to sent mail to.
html_content = render_to_string('mail_template.html', {'title':'My Awesome email title', 'content' : 'Some email content', 'username':user.username}) # render with dynamic context you can retrieve in the html file
traceback = {}
try:
send_mail(subject,strip_tags(html_content),from_email, to, html_message=html_content, fail_silently=False)
traceback['status'] = True
except smtplib.SMTPException as e:
traceback['error'] = '%s (%s)' % (e.message, type(e))
traceback['status'] = False
full_traceback.append(traceback)
errors_to_return = []
error_not_found = []
for email in full_traceback:
if email['status']:
error_not_found.append(True)
else:
error_not_found.append(False)
errors_to_return.append(email['error'])
if False in error_not_found:
error_not_found = False
else:
error_not_found = True
return (error_not_found, errors_to_return)
#really naive view using the function on top
def my_email_view(request,user_id):
user = get_object_or_404(User, pk=user_id)
subject = 'Subject'
from_email = 'myemail#xxx.com'
email_sent, traceback = send_email_to_users(user, subject, from_email)
if email_sent:
return render(request,'sucess_template.html')
return render(request,'fail_template.html',{'email_errors' : traceback})
In your template mail_template.html:
<h1>{{title}}</h1>
<p>Dear {{username}},</p>
<p>{{content}}</p>
And don't forget to set the email settings in settings.py: https://docs.djangoproject.com/fr/2.2/ref/settings/#email-backend
Send_mail from docs :https://docs.djangoproject.com/fr/2.2/topics/email/#send-mail
Render_to_string from the doc: https://docs.djangoproject.com/fr/2.2/topics/templates/#django.template.loader.render_to_string