Welcome to the django-pony-express - class-based emails for Django shipping with a full test suite.

Similar to class-based view in Django core, this package provides a neat, DRY and testable (!) way to handle your emails in Django.

• PyPI
• GitHub
• Full documentation
• Creator & Maintainer: Ambient Digital

Features

• Class-based structure for emails
  • Avoid duplicate low-level setup
  • Utilise inheritance and OOP benefits
  • No duplicated templates for HTML and plain-text
• Test suite to write proper unit-tests for your emails
  • Access your test outbox like a Django queryset

Etymology

The Pony Express was an American express mail service that used relays of horse-mounted riders. [...] During its 18 months of operation, the Pony Express reduced the time for messages to travel between the east and west US coast to about 10 days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pony_Express

The name of this package combines the Django mascot (a pony) with a once quite successful mail service in the US. Ingenious, right?

Installation

• Install the package via pip:

  pip install django-pony-express

  or via pipenv:

  pipenv install django-pony-express

• Add module to INSTALLED_APPS within the main django settings.py:

  INSTALLED_APPS = (
      # ...
      "django_pony_express",
  )

Publish to ReadTheDocs.io

• Fetch the latest changes in GitHub mirror and push them
• Trigger new build at ReadTheDocs.io (follow instructions in admin panel at RTD) if the GitHub webhook is not yet set up.

Publish to PyPi

• Update documentation about new/changed functionality

• Update the Changelog

• Increment version in main __init__.py

• Create pull request / merge to master

• This project uses the flit package to publish to PyPI. Thus, publishing should be as easy as running:

  flit publish
  

  To publish to TestPyPI use the following to ensure that you have set up your .pypirc as shown here and use the following command:

  flit publish --repository testpypi
  

Maintenance

Please note that this package supports the ambient-package-update. So you don't have to worry about the maintenance of this package. This updater is rendering all important configuration and setup files. It works similar to well-known updaters like pyupgrade or django-upgrade.

To run an update, refer to the documentation page of the "ambient-package-update".