How can I log all outgoing email in Django?

Question

My Django application sends out quite a bit of emails and I\'ve tried testing it thoroughly. However, for the first few months, I\'d like to log all outgoing emails to ensure th

Answer 1

Since the OP asked about logging and not about saving to DB, here's a middleware that does that:

import django.core.mail.backends.smtp
import logging

logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)  # or you could enter a specific logger name

class LoggingBackend(django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend):

  def send_messages(self, email_messages):
    try:
        for msg in email_messages:
            logger.info(u"Sending message '%s' to recipients: %s", msg.subject, msg.to)
    except:
        logger.exception("Problem logging recipients, ignoring")

    return super(LoggingBackend, self).send_messages(email_messages)

and then in your settings.py:

EMAIL_BACKEND = 'whereiputit.LoggingBackend'