Python/Django: sending emails in the background

Question

Imagine a situation in which a user performs an action on a website and admins are notified. Imagine there are 20 admins to notify. By using normal methods for sending emails wi

Answer 1

Use celery as a task queue and django-celery-email which is an Django e-mail backend that dispatches e-mail sending to a celery task.

Answer 2

A thread may be a possible solution. I use threads intensively in my application for haevy tasks.

# This Python file uses the following encoding: utf-8

#threading
from threading import Thread

...

class afegeixThread(Thread):

    def __init__ (self,usuari, parameter=None):
        Thread.__init__(self)
        self.parameter = parameter
        ...

    def run(self):        
        errors = []
        try:
             if self.paramenter:
                   ....
        except Exception, e:                
             ...
...

n = afegeixThread( 'p1' )
n.start()

Answer 3

Another option is django-mailer. It queues up mail in a database table and then you use a cron job to send them.

https://github.com/pinax/django-mailer