Re: #10355 Add support for email backends

2009-09-02 Thread Mat Clayton
Thanks for the explanations, but I'm still pretty convinced it may help :) The initial docs we have from one provider appear to use an API rather than SMTP apparently. Havn't looked into it yet myself, another one of our dev's is working on that section. not even sure if we will go with these guys,

Re: #10355 Add support for email backends

2009-09-02 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 6:46 PM, Mat Clayton wrote: > I'm sure you have this covered but thought I would throw it into the mix. We > are currently having lots of problems with blacklisting and spam filters > blocking our email servers, one way we are investigating to avoid this is to > outsource th

Re: #10355 Add support for email backends

2009-09-02 Thread Mat Clayton
I'm sure you have this covered but thought I would throw it into the mix. We are currently having lots of problems with blacklisting and spam filters blocking our email servers, one way we are investigating to avoid this is to outsource the email sending to trusted 3rd party services. We don't send

Re: #10355 Add support for email backends

2009-08-24 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Andi Albrecht wrote: > > I've attached a patch to the issue on the tracker. The patch splits up > the mail module into a package and provides the backend functionality. > Documented functions and classes are of course available in the > top-level module. Undocument

Re: #10355 Add support for email backends

2009-08-24 Thread Andi Albrecht
gt; Keith-Magee wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Zachary >>> Voase wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi Andi, >>>> >>>> On 21 Aug 2009, at 05:34, Andi Albrecht wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>&g

Re: #10355 Add support for email backends

2009-08-22 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
, Andi Albrecht wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I'm interested in working on #10355 "Add support for email backends." >>>> >>>> IMHO it's an good idea to make the email backend configurable. There >>>>

Re: #10355 Add support for email backends

2009-08-21 Thread Andi Albrecht
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Russell Keith-Magee wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Zachary > Voase wrote: >> >> Hi Andi, >> >> On 21 Aug 2009, at 05:34, Andi Albrecht wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm interested in w

Re: #10355 Add support for email backends

2009-08-21 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 8:24 PM, Andi Albrecht wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 7:23 AM, Russell > Keith-Magee wrote: >> A 'test email backend' (as well as a dummy no-mail-at-all backend, and >> a log-to-console/log-to-file backend) is a different way to target the >> underlying problem posed by

Re: #10355 Add support for email backends

2009-08-21 Thread Andi Albrecht
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 7:23 AM, Russell Keith-Magee wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Andi > Albrecht wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I'm interested in working on #10355 "Add support for email backends." >> >> IMHO it's an good i

Re: #10355 Add support for email backends

2009-08-21 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Zachary Voase wrote: > > Hi Andi, > > On 21 Aug 2009, at 05:34, Andi Albrecht wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm interested in working on #10355 "Add support for email backends." >> >> IMHO it's an good idea

Re: #10355 Add support for email backends

2009-08-21 Thread Andi Albrecht
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Zachary Voase wrote: > > Hi Andi, > > On 21 Aug 2009, at 05:34, Andi Albrecht wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm interested in working on #10355 "Add support for email backends." >> >> IMHO it's an good i

Re: #10355 Add support for email backends

2009-08-21 Thread Andi Albrecht
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Tim Chase wrote: > >> In terms of the SMTP-specific settings (host, port, username, password >> and use_tls), I personally feel that those parameters should be in the >> settings module and not in the code. Although at the moment, >> django.core.mail will use cert

Re: #10355 Add support for email backends

2009-08-21 Thread Zachary Voase
On 21 Aug 2009, at 11:39, Tim Chase wrote: > Having email settings defined globally precludes the ability to > do things like create a web email application for which each user > has their own email (usually SMTP/IMAP/POP) settings. While yes, > I could see having some defaults at the settings.p

Re: #10355 Add support for email backends

2009-08-21 Thread Tim Chase
> In terms of the SMTP-specific settings (host, port, username, password > and use_tls), I personally feel that those parameters should be in the > settings module and not in the code. Although at the moment, > django.core.mail will use certain settings if said parameters are left > out.

Re: #10355 Add support for email backends

2009-08-21 Thread Zachary Voase
Hi Andi, On 21 Aug 2009, at 05:34, Andi Albrecht wrote: > Hi, > > I'm interested in working on #10355 "Add support for email backends." > > IMHO it's an good idea to make the email backend configurable. There > are at least two use cases I can think of. T

Re: #10355 Add support for email backends

2009-08-20 Thread Thomas Guettler
Hi, Andi Albrecht schrieb: > Hi, > > I'm interested in working on #10355 "Add support for email backends." > > IMHO it's an good idea to make the email backend configurable. There > are at least two use cases I can think of. The first is to send email >

Re: #10355 Add support for email backends

2009-08-20 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Andi Albrecht wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm interested in working on #10355 "Add support for email backends." > > IMHO it's an good idea to make the email backend configurable. There > are at least two use cases I can think of

#10355 Add support for email backends

2009-08-20 Thread Andi Albrecht
Hi, I'm interested in working on #10355 "Add support for email backends." IMHO it's an good idea to make the email backend configurable. There are at least two use cases I can think of. The first is to send email with other services than SMTP, like App Engine as n