A wrapper around Django's EmailMultiAlternatives that renders templates.

gistfile1.py

from django.conf import settings
from django.core.mail import EmailMultiAlternatives
from django.template.loader import render_to_string


class EMail(object):
    """
    A wrapper around Django's EmailMultiAlternatives
    that renders txt and html templates.
    Example Usage:
    >>> email = Email(to='[email protected]', subject='A great non-spammy email!')
    >>> ctx = {'username': 'Oz Katz'}
    >>> email.text('templates/email.txt', ctx)
    >>> email.html('templates/email.html', ctx)  # Optional
    >>> email.send()
    >>>
    """
    def __init__(self, to, subject):
        self.to = to
        self.subject = subject
        self._html = None
        self._text = None
    
    def _render(self, template, context):
        return render_to_string(template, context)

    def html(self, template, context):
        self._html = self._render(template, context)

    def text(self, template, context):
        self._text = self._render(template, context)

    def send(self, from_addr=None, fail_silently=False):
        if isinstance(self.to, basestring):
            self.to = [self.to]
        if not from_addr:
            from_addr = getattr(settings, 'EMAIL_FROM_ADDR')
        msg = EmailMultiAlternatives(
            self.subject,
            self._text,
            from_addr,
            self.to
        )
        if self._html:
            msg.attach_alternative(self._html, 'text/html')
        msg.send(fail_silently)