Requires Django 1.3+.
The django-multimail demo site is at: http://www.django-multimail.com
multimail is a simple Django application that provides multiple-email address functionality for Django's existing User model. Features include:
- Auto-creation of a multimail email from the email on a User object
- Email verification via link sent to new email address
- Auto-deletion of unverified email addresses when a user is administratively deactivated.
QUICKSTART
If you already have email sending configured, Sites configured, and are exposing messages in your templates:
- python setup.py install
- add multimail to installed apps
- include 'django.template.loaders.eggs.Loader' in your TEMPLATE_LOADERS
- In your base urls.py:
- (r'^mail/', include('multimail.urls')),
- syncdb
DETAILED START
Configure your project for sending email. This usually involves setting the following properties in your settings file: EMAIL_HOST, EMAIL_HOST_USER, EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD, EMAIL_USE_TLS, EMAIL_BACKEND. (See the Django docs: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/topics/email/). Additionally, you will need to set either MULTIMAIL_FROM_EMAIL_ADDRESS or ADMIN_EMAIL for Multimail to use as the from mail address. ADMIN_EMAIL is used if MULTIMAIL_FROM_EMAIL_ADDRESS has not been set.
Be sure you are setup to use Django's sites framework (see the Django docs: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/ref/contrib/sites/)
multimail uses the current domain to build verification link URLs. Alternatively, you can set the MULTIMAIL_EMAIL_VERIFICATION_URL settings property. See the SETTINGS section below.
Be sure you are exposing messages in your templates. See Django docs on the messages framework: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/ref/contrib/messages/
Be sure to include 'django.template.loaders.eggs.Loader' in the TEMPLATE_LOADERS in your settings file. You should put this after loaders that load templates you create yourself so that you can create overriding templates to replace the builtin multimail templates.
To install multimail, run python setup.py install
Add multimail to your installed apps in your settings file
- In your base url config, add a line like the following:
(r'^mail/', include('multimail.urls')),
Run syncdb
You can now start creating new EmailAddress objects for your users. A Verification email will be sent automatically when a new EmailAddress object is created.
EXAMPLE
>>> from django.contrib.auth.models import User
>>> u = User.objects.all()[0]
>>> u.save() # will automatically create an EmailAddress object for the user's current email address
You can also create EmailAddress objects for users directly: >>> from multimail.models import EmailAddress >>> addr = EmailAddress.objects.create(email='user@example.com', user=u)
SETTINGS
The following properties may be set to customize your multimail installation. Note that where default properties are enclosed with _() indicates translation via Django's ugettext. Multimail does not currently have any built-in translations for its default messages. See the Django docs for information about creating translation messages: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/topics/i18n/localization/
- MULTIMAIL_DELETE_PRIMARY
- Default: False. Whether to clear the email field on the user object when the last EmailAddress is deleted.
- MULTIMAIL_FROM_EMAIL_ADDRESS
- Default: None, but falls back to ADMIN_EMAIL if not available
- MULTIMAIL_EMAIL_ALREADY_VERIFIED_MESSAGE
- Default: _("This email address has already been verified.")
- MULTIMAIL_EMAIL_VERIFIED_MESSAGE **(See note below)
- Default: _("Thank you for verifying your email address.")
- MULTIMAIL_EMAIL_VERIFICATION_URL **(See note below)
Default: 'http://%(current_site_domain)s/mail/verify/%(emailaddress_id)s/%(verif_key)s'
- Notes: if you change this URL and/or the URL configuration for calling
- the Verify view, you need to be sure that you are passing the emailaddress id, and the verification key into the view call.
- MULTIMAIL_INACTIVE_ACCOUNT_MESSAGE
- Default: _("The account associated with this email address has been marked as inactive. Please contact the site administrator.")
- MULTIMAIL_INVALID_VERIFICATION_LINK_MESSAGE
- Default: _("The seleted email verification link is invalid. Please re-register your email address.")
- MULTIMAIL_POST_VERIFY_URL
- Default: '/'
- MULTIMAIL_USE_MESSAGES
- Default: True. If set to False, multimail messages using the Django messages framework will fail silently.
- MULTIMAIL_VERIFICATION_EMAIL_SUBJECT **(See note below)
- Default: _('Verfication required')
- MULTIMAIL_VERIFICATION_EMAIL_HTML_TEMPLATE
- Default: 'multimail/verification_email.html'
- MULTIMAIL_VERIFICATION_EMAIL_TEXT_TEMPLATE
- Default: 'multimail/verification_email.txt'
**NOTE: properties marked with ** receive a context dictionary for string templating. The default values do not take advantage of this, preferring static strings in order to take advantage of translation capabilities. The following keys are passed to these strings: current_site_domain
current_site_id current_site_name emailaddress_id email (the email on the current multimail email object) first_name last_name primary_email (the email on the user object) user_id username verif_key verify_link
Note that MULTIMAIL_EMAIL_VERIFICATION_URL does not get the verif_link key for obvious reasons.