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Use an URL to configure email backend settings in your Django Application.

Project description

This utiliy is based on dj-database-url by Kenneth Reitz.

It allows to utilize the 12factor inspired environments variable to configure the email backend in a Django application.

Usage

Configure your email configuration values in settings.py from EMAIL_URL:

email_config = dj_email_url.config()

Parse an arbitrary email URL:

email_config = dj_email_url.parse('smtp://...')

After this, it is necessary to assign values to settings:

EMAIL_FILE_PATH = email_config['EMAIL_FILE_PATH']
EMAIL_HOST_USER = email_config['EMAIL_HOST_USER']
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = email_config['EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD']
EMAIL_HOST = email_config['EMAIL_HOST']
EMAIL_PORT = email_config['EMAIL_PORT']
EMAIL_BACKEND = email_config['EMAIL_BACKEND']

Supported backends

Currently, it supports:

  • SMTP backend (smtp or smtps),

  • console backend (console),

  • file backend (file),

  • in-memory backend (memory),

  • and dummy backend (dummy).

The scheme smtps indicates to use TLS connections, that is to set EMAIL_USE_TLS to True.

The file backend is the only one which needs a path. The url path is store in EMAIL_FILE_PATH key.

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