mass email app for django

[Sven Aßmann]

Hi Group,

currently i evaluating / research for a django app that supports mailing
specific texts to a receipient list (like mass emailing). the corner features
are:

- email text should be editable (text or html nothing special) thru the admin
app
- the receipient list should be maintainable independently from users and
texts (like a addressbook that is maintanale thru admin app)
- ideally supports several mail backends like smtp, aws sms, postmark etc..
- processing of the sending can be done async via django cli / message queue
services

The closest use case app would be something like a newsletter app, where the
subscibers can be maintainted apart from django.auth.users
I am aware of www.djangopackages.com and found already a couple of
applications that could make the job.

I ask you folks if someone has good experience with a specific one and or what
features are included and helpfull and what are not that helpfull.

I really appreciate your contributions.

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Best Regards,
Sven

[Sergiy Khohlov]

Hello Sven,

Look like it is not task for django. This is task for SMTP server. Of
course you can create a task for SMTP server using django but main
force of the your application is based on mail server.
I'm proposing next solution:
1) Store usermail in database
2) configure smtp server for using database as virtual emails
database (it is not hard)
3) Use django as web interface
4) Send letter to SMTP using standart protocol

P.S. Postmark has API and it is possible to use it directly from django.
If you have any questions let me know. I've supported SMTP servers
for 15 years and 've worked for spamfight service.
Many thanks,

Serge


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[Diederik van der Boor]

Hi Sven,

What you describe sounds like a Mailinglist..
Wouldn't it be possible to use Mailchimp or Aweber for this kind of service?
From Django you can use their API's.

Mass-mailing has a risk of being blacklisted as server,
at least make sure you send email via a whitelisted SMPT server (and not directly to everyone at the web).
For mass-mailing I always recommend using specialized mailinglist software.

Greetings,
Diederik

[Sven Aßmann]

Hi Serge,

unfortunately the smtp server is a managed server therefore no configuration to
use a db as virtual mail backend can be performed.

But thanks for your notes, especially i wasn't aware that djnago can use the
postmark / rest api for mails out of the box. I need to investigate on that -
exiting.

Cheers,
Sven

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Best Regards,
Sven

[Sven Aßmann]

Hi Dedrerik,

maybe your are right and just using a service like Mailchimp (which seems to
be pretty userfriendly) would be the best way to go. I will defenetly have a
look on it and try to find out if the users needs can be satisfied by that.

Thanks a lot.

Cheers,
Sven

[Sergiy Khohlov]

In this case you have a problem with deliveries verifying. For example :
You would like to send mass email to 1000 mail boxes and uses CC: or
BCC: field for this one. But most of the SMTP has a limitation : ex
postfix has reading only 50 item in CC list. As result you can not
send most of the your email. In the case of sending directly to the
other SMTP (not using own SMTP) you have problem with spam protect at
the other side.
Anyway if you would like to receive some knowledge from me ask me
directly to via django list. This thread is out of maillist topic

Many thanks,

Serge


+380 636150445
skype: skhohlov