Dynamic Django Mail Configuration

Question

I don\'t want to use email configuration fields in setting.py, i want to put them in to a model.

class Configuration(models.Model):
    email_use_tls = model         


        

Answer 1

I've used this method for a few years and love it. I've just published a package (django-des) to accomplish this using the methods in the other answers here.

This package installs a model (DynamicEmailConfiguration) and uses django-solo to give you a nice editing experience in the Django admin. It then provides an email backend you can use that will pull settings from that model in a similar way to what Andrey Nelubin recommended. It also gives you a nice little test email button at the top right of the Django Admin Panel.

To install it:

• Install Django Dynamic Email Settings:

  $ pip install django-des
  

• Add it to your `INSTALLED_APPS`:

  INSTALLED_APPS = (
      ...
      'django_des',
      ...
  )
  

• Add the dynamic email configuration email backend to settings.py

  EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django_des.backends.ConfiguredEmailBackend'
  

• To enable test email support, add Django DES's URL patterns:

  from django_des import urls as django_des_urls
  
  urlpatterns = [
      ...
      url(r'^django-des/', include(django_des_urls)),
  ]
  

Now you can visit 127.0.0.1:8000/admin/django_des/dynamicemailconfiguration/ and configure your email settings. You can send a test email from there too.

Once this is all done, you can use send_mail normally.