Django emails with html/txt templates

Django Templated Email is a tool which sends email in django with html/txt templates.

Features:

Html / Txt templates
Context variables
Current site (from sites framework) available in templates as {{ site }} variable

Installation and usage:

Run the following command inside your django’s project directory


git submodule add https://github.com/simion/django-templated-email.git templated_email

git submodule add https://github.com/simion/django-templated-email.git templated_email

In setting.py file add “templated_email” to INSTALLED_APPS


INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ...
    'templated_email',
    ...
)

INSTALLED_APPS = (

...

'templated_email',

...

)

Use the function. Example:


from templated_email import send_templated_email

...

send_templated_email(
    "Example subject"
    None,
    ['test@email.com']  #must be a list or tuple
    'example-template',
    context,  # context variables to send in template
    # cc = []
    # bcc = []
)

from templated_email import send_templated_email

...

send_templated_email(

"Example subject"

None,

['[email protected]'] #must be a list or tuple

'example-template',

context, # context variables to send in template

# cc = []

# bcc = []

)

Don’t forget to create the template files.

In your templates folder, create a folder named ‘email_templates’.

Place example-template.html or example-template.txt inside of it.

Example:


 <project-path>/<app-path>/templates/email_templates/exmaple-template.html

<project-path>/<app-path>/templates/email_templates/exmaple-template.html