django app for managing sending email to users...

[James Tauber]

A number of sites I'm working on will optionally notify users of
certain events via email. Think of the email you get from a social
networking site when someone wants to add you as a friend. Or forum
software that emails subscribers to a thread when there's been a new
post. I also have the occasional need to send administrative email to
all users on a site or announcements to those that have opted-in to
receive them (although my own preference in that case is for there to
be an Atom feed).

I was thinking of developing a django app for this with support for
queuing and throttling of sends, scheduled sends, and logging of mail
failures. I'm NOT interested at all in using it for unsolicited email
(although unfortunately there's nothing in the design I have in mind
that would prevent its use for that, I don't think)

But I wanted to check first if anyone has developed something like this?

James

(cross-posted to django-hotclub as it's a potentially useful addition
to the nascent Hot Club of France suite of apps)

[James Tauber]

I've set up django-mailer at Google Code:

http://code.google.com/p/django-mailer/

and written down a bunch of notes on the home page about use cases
and functional requirements.

I've suggested discussion take place on django-users, but I'm happy
to start up a django-mailer list at Google Groups if people prefer.