django-huey-email - A Huey-backed Django Email Backend

A Django email backend that uses a Huey queue for out-of-band sending of the messages. Inspired by the project django-celery-email.

Warning

This version requires the following versions:

• Python >= 3.0
• Django 2.0.8
• Huey >= 1.10.2

Using django-huey-email

To enable django-huey-email for your project you need to add djhuey_email to INSTALLED_APPS:

INSTALLED_APPS += ("djhuey_email",)

You must then set django-huey-email as your EMAIL_BACKEND:

EMAIL_BACKEND = 'djhuey_email.backends.HueyEmailBackend'

By default django-huey-email will use Django's builtin SMTP email backend for the actual sending of the mail. If you'd like to use another backend, you may set it in HUEY_EMAIL_BACKEND just like you would normally have set EMAIL_BACKEND before you were using Huey. In fact, the normal installation procedure will most likely be to get your email working using only Django, then change EMAIL_BACKEND to HUEY_EMAIL_BACKEND, and then add the new EMAIL_BACKEND setting from above.

Mass email are sent in chunks of size HUEY_EMAIL_CHUNK_SIZE (defaults to 10).

There are some default settings. Unless you specify otherwise, the equivalent of the following settings will apply:

HUEY_EMAIL_TASK_CONFIG = {
    'retries': 3,
    'retry_delay': 60 * 5  # 5min
}

After this setup is complete, and you have a working Huey install, sending email will work exactly like it did before, except that the sending will be handled by your Huey workers:

from django.core import mail

emails = (
    ('Hey Man', "I'm The Dude! So that's what you call me.", 'dude@aol.com', ['mr@lebowski.com']),
    ('Dammit Walter', "Let's go bowlin'.", 'dude@aol.com', ['wsobchak@vfw.org']),
)
results = mail.send_mass_mail(emails)

results will be a list of huey TaskResultWrapper objects that you may ignore, or use to check the status of the email delivery task, or even wait for it to complete if want. You should also set HUEY_EMAIL_CHUNK_SIZE = 1 in settings if you are concerned about task status and results.

See the Huey docs for more info.

len(results) will be the number of emails you attempted to send divided by HUEY_EMAIL_CHUNK_SIZE, and is in no way a reflection on the success or failure of their delivery.

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