> For email you should probably not use Gmail.
I totally agree here. You're also forced to store a password (even if it's app-specific) in plain text, and the tracking/delivery features are non-existent.
The Mandrill API is pretty rad (I'm using it in my Go app) and the tracking, ability to re-send an email from the last 24 hours (on the free plan) and the server-side templates are all very useful.
try:
mandrill_client = mandrill.Mandrill('YOUR_API_KEY')
message = {
'subject': "Hello there.",
'to': [{'email': 'recipient.email@example.com',
'name': 'Recipient Name',
'type': 'to'}],
'from_name': "Matt",
'from_email': "matt@example.com",
}
result = mandrill_client.messages.send(message=message, async=True) // It'll fire it off without waiting, and you can either set up a web-hook *or* manually re-send if it fails via the dashboard if you don't do massive volumes
except mandrill.Error, e:
# Mandrill errors are thrown as exceptions
print 'A mandrill error occurred: %s - %s' % (e.__class__, e)
# A mandrill error occurred: <class 'mandrill.UnknownSubaccountError'> - No subaccount exists with the id 'customer-123'
raise
Pretty simple stuff. Add in some MergeVars (
|NAME|
,
|PURCHASE_ID|
) and server-side templates and you can pass whatever is needed to the API without having to keep "content" in your code or pull in an external template (i.e. Jinja).