Send Muli-Language Multi-Transport Template-Driven Email - mailplate

With mailplate you can send an email from a template stored in a gettext .mo file, over any supported transport. Current transports include SMTP, SMTPS, Amazon SES and Mailgun. It is very easy to add a "driver" for additional transports.

Installation

Simplest installation is with pip:

pip install mailplate

Then in your code import the Mailplate class:

from mailplate import Mailplate

Requires Python3.

Using mailplate

STEP 1 - define a mailer:

mailplate = Mailplate(
    'smtps://smtp.gmail.com:587/',       # The transport; can be also 'ses://', 'mailgun://',...
    ( 'myemail@gmail.com', 'secret123' ) # Username and password
    'myemail@gmail.com',                 # The "From" address
    'locale',                            # gettext locale directory
    'myapp',                             # gettext domain
    'en_US',                             # Default language
    [ 'msg1', 'msg2', 'msg3' ])          # List of app's email messages

The email templates in the above example are stored under the directory structure locale/-lang-/LC_MESSAGES/myapp.mo where -lang- is each one of the application's supported locales. For each email message the .mo files should include the following msgid-s:

• The email subject, whose id is the message name appended with ':subject'. In the above example the msgid of the messages are msg1:subject, msg2:subject, and msg3:subject.

• The email body, whose id is the message name appended with ':text' for the text version of the message body and ':html' for the html version of the message body. At least one version is required, it is recommended to provide both. In the above example the msgid of the messages are msg1:text, msg2:text, and msg3:text for the text version and msg1:html, msg2:html, and msg3:html for the html version. The mailplate package contains an example directory with a small sample of language files.

STEP 2 - send the message:

mailplate. send(
    'someone@example.com', # Recepient address
    'msg1',                # The message name
    'fr_CA',               # The language
    { 'someval': 123 })    # Optional arguments

The send method will send the requested message in its requested-language version. If there is no version of the message in the requested language and the requested language is country-specific, then mailplate will attempt to find the language under the country-neutral version - in the above example under the language 'fr'. If the message is not found in the requested language then mailplate will use the version in the default language which was set in the class initializer.

The send method can take an optional arguments list which consists of parameter names and their values. If the message contains a reference to the parameter in the form ...{param}... then the reference will be replaced by the parameter's value in the arguments list. In the above example, each reference {someval} will be replaced by the 123 string. mailplate automatically generates an argument for the parameter to which evaluates to the recipient's email address.

Transport-Specific Stuff

The current mailplate version supports the trasports: SMTP, SMTPS, Amazon SES and Mailgun. The transport is set by the first two arguments of the Mailplate class initializer. The first argument is a URL-style mailer address and the second argument is transport-sepecific credentials, as follows:

• SMTP: The mailer URL is of the form smtp://host:port where port can be omitted and defaults to 25. The credentials are ignored. This transport is useful primarilly for testing purposes.

• SMTPS: The mailer URL is of the form smtps://host:port where port can be omitted and defaults to 465. The credentials consists of two items - the username and the password.

• Amazon SES: The mailer URL is ses://. The credentials consist of three items: The Access Key ID, the Secret Access Key, and the AWS region. Using SES requires the boto package to be installed.

• Mailgun: The mailer URL is mailgun://. The credentials consist of the region and the API key. Using Mailgun requires the requests package to be installed.

The mailplate.py file has at its bottom a few commented sample calls which can be edited for a quick hands-on. They include sample definitions for each of the above transports.

Adding More Transports

Every transport has a "driver" which is a file in the driver directory. Check out the provided drivers to write your own, they are ridiculously simple.

Help and Reporting Issues

Please use https://github.com/avnr/mailplate/issues

License

MIT License

Release Notes

Release 0.6, 2015-11-11

• Added the SMTP transport

Release 0.601, 2015-11-12

• Fixed setup to include the drivers