Customizing
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ppms.customizer.mail

This package lets you send emails from a Python context.

Functions

Function

Parameters

Return Value

Description

get_smtp_server_address()


String

Returns the value of the smtp server address global setting

get_smtp_server_port()


String

Returns  the value of the smtp server port global setting

get_default_email_sender()


String

Returns the value of the default email sender global setting

get_smtp_username()


String

Returns the value of the smtp username global setting

get_smtp_password()


String

Returns the value of the smtp password global setting

Function

Parameters

Return Value

Description

get_user_email(user)

user: user id from DI 010323 in 511

String or None

Returns the value of the users email address or None if the user does not exist

Creating a new message object

See the Python docs for documentation on the EmailMessage class: https://docs.python.org/3/library/email.message.html

Function

Parameters

Return Value

Description

get_default_message()


email.message.EmailMessage instance

Creates a default EmailMessage object with the sender read from the global setting

get_default_text_message(recipient, subject, content)

recipient: string containing the email address of the recipient. If you have multiple recipients you can use a string containing a comma separated list of addresses.

subject: string subject of the email.

content: string The text body of the email

email.message.EmailMessage instance

Creates a default EmailMessage object with sender, recipient, subject and content set.

get_default_html_message(recipient, subject, content)

recipient: string containing the email address of the recipient. If you have multiple recipients you can use a string containing a comma separated list of addresses.

subject: string subject of the email.

content: string The html body of the email

email.mime.text.MIMEText instance

Creates a html MIMEText object with sender, recipient, subject and content set.


Classes

EmailContext

Methods

Function

Parameters

Return Value

Description

EmailContext.__init__(self, user=None, password=None)

user: Optional user to use as authentication against the smtp server If None is used the smtp username global setting is read and used.

password: Optional password to use as authentication against the smtp server. If None is used the smtp username global setting is read and used.

EmailContext instance

Initialize a new EmailContext object for sending mails.

EmailContext.__enter__(self)


EmailContext instance

Connect to the SMTP server and optionally authenticate with the server if the parameters were set.

EmailContext.__exit__(self, exc_type, exc_val, exc_tb)

exc_type: Exception type.

exc_val: Exception value.

exc_tb: Exception traceback


Disconnect from the SMTP server

EmailContext.send_message(self, message)

message: email.message.EmailMessage or child instance

returns the result of

https://docs.python.org/3/library/smtplib.html#smtplib.SMTP.send_message

Send a EmailMessage object

Example Code

Sending a mail to multiple recipients using the EmailContext context manager

Python
from ppms.customizer import mail

recipient_list = ['customizer1@example.com', 'customizer2@example.com']
recipient = ','.join(recipient_list)

subject = 'E-Mail Sending Example'
content = 'Hello World!'

message = mail.get_default_text_message(recipient=recipient, subject=subject, content=content)

with mail.EmailContext() as m:
    response = m.send_message(message=message)