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Django sendmail backend
"""sendmail email backend class."""
import threading
from django.conf import settings
from django.core.mail.backends.base import BaseEmailBackend
from subprocess import Popen,PIPE
class EmailBackend(BaseEmailBackend):
def __init__(self, fail_silently=False, **kwargs):
super(EmailBackend, self).__init__(fail_silently=fail_silently)
self._lock = threading.RLock()
def open(self):
return True
def close(self):
pass
def send_messages(self, email_messages):
"""
Sends one or more EmailMessage objects and returns the number of email
messages sent.
"""
if not email_messages:
return
self._lock.acquire()
try:
num_sent = 0
for message in email_messages:
sent = self._send(message)
if sent:
num_sent += 1
finally:
self._lock.release()
return num_sent
def _send(self, email_message):
"""A helper method that does the actual sending."""
if not email_message.recipients():
return False
try:
ps = Popen(["sendmail"]+list(email_message.recipients()), \
stdin=PIPE)
ps.stdin.write(email_message.message().as_string())
ps.stdin.flush()
ps.stdin.close()
return not ps.wait()
except:
if not self.fail_silently:
raise
return False
return True
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blueyed commented Jan 11, 2014

You might be interested in my pull request to get this into the django-sendmail-backend package and/or the package in general: perenecabuto/django-sendmail-backend#2

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