django mailler status

[yml]

Hello,
I would like to know if this project can already be used to do what is
advertised on that page:
- http://code.google.com/p/django-mailer/

I cannot see any issue on code.google.com does that mean that nobody
is using it yet in production or does that mean that the existing
application is already very stable.

Thank you

--yml

[Brot]

This is a good question! What's the status of this project?
Is the project still alive?

Regards
Bernd

On 29 Sep., 19:02, yml <yann.ma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I would like to know if this project can already be used to do what is
> advertised on that page:

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

[James Tauber]

It's not usable but wouldn't take much to get there.

One of the questions I'd like to get input from people on is the
following...

Assuming that the campaign mai out takes as input essentially:

(a) a query set of users
(b) a subject and body template

how might one devise a web interface for selecting these?

For (b) it's fairly easy: just store the templates in the database.
Then the admin can add, edit and select them easily.

But how might one select what subset of users to send the mail to?

Would the developer simply write new methods on a custom User manager?
Would the web interface then introspect those and present them as
options or require the developer to register them in a table in the
db? Requiring registration would obviously allow any function that
returns a query set, not just a method on a custom manager.

Thoughts?

I realise not everyone plans to use django-mailer for admin-initiated
bulk mailouts but that's a key use case for me that I'd like to get up
and running.

James

[yml]

Hello James,
I am glad to read from you and see that you have still some interest
on this project. I will give you my thoughts regarding (a) and (b):

* (a) I was thinking to a many to many relation with "group". It
seems to me that this approach will give a nice and simple UI to
create the relation and this without too much work. However I have
some concerns related to the assignment of Users to Group in the case
where Several thousands of Users are declared in the DB. I believe
that in a second step the addition of an ajaxy view, may be using the
new dojo grid, might help to support this scenario nicely.

* (b) Your approach (in DB) sounds great to me. In addition it would
be nice to directly point to a template on the file system.
Internationalization in DB is mush more complex to handle.

Regards,
--yml

[lnie...@eso.org]

Hello James,

We are building a couple of websites on Django at the moment, and need
bulkmail functionality in the admins and I was wondering if the latest
stuff for django-mailer is in subversion or there is any plans to
update it in the near future?

We are interested in taking up the work from what is available now and
make it work for our needs and naturally include it into django-mailer
if you allow? Since this is a needs-driven project for us, we expect
to have a fully functional bulkmail system for django in end January.
Unfortunately, since it's needs-driven also means that we will pretty
much implement the functionality we need. However, our needs are very
versatile - e.g. we need to provide emails from many different data
sources - so it definitely should be usable for many others, and it
will be better than nothing. So if you have any design thought that
haven't been posted here or on the wiki, feel free to post them, and
we can try to see if it can be aligned with what we need.

This should not sound as if we are trying to take over the project,
but merely use it, extend it and include our changes into django-
mailer if they fit into your plans. However, since we're on deadlines
we are quite pragmatic and is only going to implement what will work
for us, as this is only one smaller part of what we need to make.

Cheers,
Lars

P.S Feel free to contact me off list or by phone for further
discussions.

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