seacucumber is an e-mail backend for Django. Instead of sending emails through a traditional SMTP mail server, Sea Cucumber routes email through Amazon Web Services' excellent Simple Email Service (SES) via django-celery.
Why Sea Cucumber/SES instead of SMTP?
Configuring, maintaining, and dealing with some complicated edge cases can be time-consuming. Sending emails with Sea Cucumber might be attractive to you if:
- You don't want to maintain mail servers.
- Your mail server is slow or unreliable, blocking your views from rendering.
- You need to send a high volume of email.
- You don't want to have to worry about PTR records, Reverse DNS, email whitelist/blacklist services.
- You are already deployed on EC2 (In-bound traffic to SES is free from EC2 instances). This is not a big deal either way, but is an additional perk if you happen to be on AWS.
Installation:
Assuming you've got Django and django-celery installed, you'll need Boto 2.0b4 or higher. boto is a Python library that wraps the AWS API.
You can do the following to install boto 2.0b4 (we're using --upgrade here to make sure you get 2.0b4):
pip install --upgrade boto
Install Sea Cucumber:
pip install seacucumber
Add the following to your settings.py:
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'seacucumber.backend.SESBackend'
# These are optional -- if they're set as environment variables they won't
# need to be set here as well
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID = 'YOUR-ACCESS-KEY-ID'
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY = 'YOUR-SECRET-ACCESS-KEY'
# Make sure to do this if you want the ``ses_address`` management command.
INSTALLED_APPS = (
...
'seacucumber'
)
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