django-templates-email

Generates the content needed to send a transactional email, based on a template:

The template should contains two blocks: "subject" and "html". The "html" block should contain a full html document, with internal CSS styles in the tag. When the template gets merged the CSS styles are automatically inlined.

A plaintext version of the html is automatically generated from the html (some email readers choose to display the plaintext).

Requirements

• Python: 3.6 and over
• Django: 2.0 and over

Possible enhancement

• Right now css inlining is applied each time an email is merged (and this takes time). It would be better to 'pre-inline' once the basic html structure, and do the repetitive merges on that pre-inlined base.

One approach for implementation would be a custom 'css inlining' template loader. Another would be a custom template tag that inlines during the compilation phase: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/howto/custom-template-tags/#a-quick-overview

References

• https://anymail.readthedocs.io/en/stable/tips/django_templates/ for premailer.
• https://github.com/vintasoftware/django-templated-email/ for the subject and html block idea.

To work on this code

pip install -e .

To run tests:

tox

To release a version to pypi:

• Edit __version__ in __init__.py
• Push and wait for the build to succeed
• Create a release in github, travis will build and deploy the new version to pypi: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-templates-email