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Sending emails from my django website, via sendgrid

I want to send account confirmation emails to all the users who sign up on my website, so it has to be an HTML email with the activation link. This is how i am trying to do it:
import os
from sendgrid import SendGridAPIClient
from sendgrid.helpers.mail import Mail
def my_view(request):
current_site = get_current_site(request)
mail_subject = 'Welcome To IIITU Alumni Network'
to_email = email
ctx = {
'user': user,
'domain': current_site.domain,
'uid':urlsafe_base64_encode(force_bytes(user.pk)),
'token':account_activation_token.make_token(user),
}
message = Mail(
to_emails = to_email,
from_email = '<my email address>',
subject = mail_subject,
#I made this html page specifically for sending confirmation email
#I am not sure if this is the correct way to do it
html_content = render_to_string('network/email.html', ctx)
)
try:
#I have this key as an environment variable
sg = SendGridAPIClient(os.environ.get('SENDGRID_API_KEY'))
#Now this is where the problem is
response = sg.send(message)
print(response.status_code)
print(response.body)
print(response.headers)
return HttpResponse("A confirmation Email has been sent to your Institute email address. Please Confirm Your email to complete your registration")
except Exception as e:
print(e.message)
return HttpResponse("The Server seems too busy!! Sorry for the inconvenience. Please try again later, or contact administrator if this problem persists.")
When this particular view is rendered, it throws the following error message:
'UnauthorizedError' object has no attribute 'message'
Since this doesn't send the emails via an SMTP server, according to my understanding i don't need to add anything to my settings.py file(i did add 'sendgrid' to my installed apps after i installed it using pip)Can someone please point out what i did wrong? I have been stuck on this for a while now...
Thank you for your time

I think this line is causing an error.
...
except Exception as e:
print(e.message)
...
Whatever exception is occuring, it doens't have message property.
Two solutions.
print(e)
remove try except block and try to figure out which exception is occurring and then catch that specifically.

Azure functions to send email with logo using sendgrid

I am sending email from Azure functions using python and sendgrid. I am able to form the other part of the email but when I am trying to insert logo in signature of the email is not displaying that. Rest HTML is rendering fine.(till href)
Following is my code :
import sendgrid
from sendgrid import SendGridAPIClient
from sendgrid.helpers.mail import Mail
message = Mail(
from_email=email_from,
to_emails=email_to,
subject=email_subject,
html_content= '<br>Hi '+name+ ','+
'<br>body of the email. Working fine.' +
'<br><a href='+no+'>No'</a>\n' +
'<br><br>LOGO--><img src="doc.png" alt="W3Schools.com"/>'+
'</html>'
)
response = sg.send(message)
print(response.status_code)
I tried pointing out URL in src too and it did not help.

There are 3 options to achieve this:
CID Embedded Images (Inline Images)
Inline Embedding (Base64 Encoding)
Linked Images
Check out below links for implementation details:
https://sendgrid.com/blog/embedding-images-emails-facts/
https://github.com/sendgrid/sendgrid-python/issues/736

Send html email using flask in Python

I want to send HTML webpage as a mail body using Python and Flask. I tried using MIME module, but somehow I am not being able to send mail. If anyone has any expertise on this, can you please help me.
It would be great if you could provide some code as well.

flask-mail is a good tool that I use to render the template to render HTML as the body of my mail.
from flask_mail import Message
from flask import render_template
MAIL_USERNAME = os.environ.get('MAIL_USERNAME')
MAIL_PASSWORD = os.environ.get('MAIL_PASSWORD')
def send_mail_flask(to,subject,template,**kwargs):
msg = Message(subject=subject,sender='email#ofTheSender.com', recipients=to)
msg.body = render_template('template.txt', **kwargs)
msg.html = render_template('template.html', **kwargs)
mail.send(msg)
The template is the HTML file you wish to include in your mail and you can also add a text version using msg.body!
You may need to add more environment variables according to the SMTP service you use.

I recently made a pretty awesome email library and I decided to make a Flask extension for it as well: Flask-Redmail
Install
pip install flask-redmail
Configuration
from flask import Flask
from flask_redmail import RedMail
app = Flask(__name__)
email = RedMail(app)
# Setting configs
app.config["EMAIL_HOST"] = "localhost"
app.config["EMAIL_PORT"] = 0
app.config["EMAIL_USERNAME"] = "me#example.com"
app.config["EMAIL_PASSWORD"] = "<PASSWORD>"
app.config["EMAIL_SENDER"] = "no-reply#example.com"
Simple Example
You may send emails simply:
#app.route("/send-email")
def send_email():
email.send(
subject="Example email",
receivers=["you#example.com"],
html="""
<h1>Hi,</h1>
<p>this is an example.</p>
"""
)
Template Example
It can also use your default Jinja env. Create a file emails/verify.html to your Flask template folder that looks like this:
<h1>Hi, you visited {{ request.endpoint }}.</h1>
Then use this template:
#app.route("/send-email-template")
def send_email():
email.send(
subject="Template example",
receivers=["you#example.com"],
html_template="emails/verify.html"
)
Flask Redmail is quite a simple wrapper for Red Mail and Red Mail is pretty extensive. It can:
Send attachments from various types
Embed images and plots to the HTML
Embed prettified tables to the HTML
Supports Jinja out-of-the-box
Gmail and Outlook are preconfigured
I hope you find it useful.
Links:
Documentation
Source Code
Releases
Red Mail:
Documentation
Source Code
Releases

Try using FlaskMail https://pythonhosted.org/flask-mail/
msg = Message(
recipients=[''],
sender='xx#zz.yy',
reply_to='aa#bb.cc',
subject=mail.subject
)
msg.html = mail.body
mail.send(msg)
here, mail is an imported file from "mails" directory,
and body is an HTML markup.

On a separate python file (emails.py) I created an email class that contains all the emails (as class methods) to be sent to the user based on his actions as below:
class Email:
def accountCreation():
body = "<html> <body> <p> {} </p> <br> <br> <p> Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.</p> </body> </html>"
return body
then on another file (app.py) where I made use of flask_mail library I have:
from flask_mail import Mail, Message
import emails
mailer = emails.Email()
try:
email = "johndoe#mail.com"
body = mailer.accountCreation()
msg = Message('Hello',recipients=[email])
msg.html = body
mail.send(msg)
except Exception as e:
print(e)

Firstly, ensure there's a folder in your apps directory called templates. This is where all your html templates should be.
**server.py**
from flask-mail import Mail, Message
from flask import Flask
import os
app = Flask(__name__)
send_mail = Mail(app)
context={
"fullname": fullname,
"otp_code": otp_code,
"year": datetime.now().year,
"subject":"Registration Mail",
}
email_message = Message(
subject=mail_subject,
sender=os.getenv("ADMIN_EMAIL"),
recipients=[receipients_email],
html=render_template(template_name_or_list="otp.html", **context)
)
send_mail.send(email_message)
where "otp.html" is an existing html template in your templates folder

Send transactional and marketing emails using 'SendInBlue'

I want to send transactional and marketing emails using 'SendInBlue'. I also want to use Python language to do the same. I have visited the API doc of SendInBlue and followed the same procedure, still unsuccessful in sending the emails.
from mailin import Mailin
m = Mailin("https://api.sendinblue.com/v2.0","ScrWGqd296ya0CWq")
data = { "to" : {"aman#gmail.com":"to whom!"},
"from" : ["amandeep#gmail.com", "from email!"],
"subject" : "Subject...",
"html" : "This is the <h1>HTML</h1>",
"attachment" : ["https://example.com/path-to-file/filename1.pdf", "https://example.com/path-to-file/filename2.jpg"]
}
result = m.send_email(data)
print(result)
I have also downloaded mailin-api-python from github and ran this script. I don't have any idea where to setup to my smtp details.
**I have changed the API key just for security purpose.

I would strongly recommend you to use the latest version of SendinBlue's Python wrapper where they have provided an example
from __future__ import print_function
import time
import sib_api_v3_sdk
from sib_api_v3_sdk.rest import ApiException
from pprint import pprint
# Configure API key authorization: api-key
configuration = sib_api_v3_sdk.Configuration()
configuration.api_key['api-key'] = 'API-KEY'
# create an instance of the API class
api_instance = sib_api_v3_sdk.SMTPApi(sib_api_v3_sdk.ApiClient(configuration))
senderSmtp = sib_api_v3_sdk.SendSmtpEmailSender(name="test",email="youremail#gmail.com")
sendTo = sib_api_v3_sdk.SendSmtpEmailTo(email="recipientEmail#gmail.com",name="Recipient Name")
arrTo = [sendTo] #Adding `to` in a list
send_smtp_email = sib_api_v3_sdk.SendSmtpEmail(sender=senderSmtp,to=arrTo,html_content="This is a test",subject="This is a test subject") # SendSmtpEmail | Values to send a transactional email
try:
# Send a transactional email
api_response = api_instance.send_transac_email(send_smtp_email)
pprint(api_response)
except ApiException as e:
print("Exception when calling SMTPApi->send_transac_email: %s\n" % e)
I got a sample script working:
I successfully received the email and the messageId as the response.
Please let me know if it helps!

Run particular Django script in background

I am developing a Gmail extracting app and using Gmail API to fetch mail from server. the problem lies in the fact that fetch time for mails is too large even though I used threading in back end framework. now I am going to implement one feature which will suggest user opting for bulk download that "once your download is ready, we will mail you" but for that i want to run download.py mentioned below in app tree in background and once the fetch is over it will get terminated.
And in the very bottom of the code i want to mail user that their download is ready but its not working though i have defined the mail server in settings.py .
download.py
import httplib2, base64
from stripogram import html2text
from oauth2client.django_orm import Storage
from apiclient.discovery import build
from oauth2client import client
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
from .models import CredentialsModel
from django.conf import settings
from rest_framework.views import APIView
from rest_framework.response import Response
from rest_framework import authentication, permissions
from gextracto import models
from gextracto.models import UserData
from django.core.mail import EmailMessage
from django.core import mail
connection = mail.get_connection()
class ListMails(APIView):
"""
Gets a list of a specified number mail ids for a particular label
Extracts the email in the form of plain/text
The API returns all the extracted mails
"""
authentication_classes = (authentication.SessionAuthentication,)
permission_classes = (permissions.IsAuthenticated,)
def extract_headers(self, message):
"""
Extract the headers for a single mail and returns it
{To, From, Subject}
"""
needed_fields = ('From', 'To', 'Subject')
return {i['name']:i['value'] for i in message['payload']['headers'] if i['name'] in needed_fields}
def get_message_body(self, message):
"""
Get the body of an email
Recursively look for the body for different mimetypes
Returns the body as text/plain
"""
if 'payload' in message:
return self.get_message_body(message['payload'])
elif 'parts' in message:
return self.get_message_body(message['parts'][0])
else:
data = base64.urlsafe_b64decode(message['body']['data'].encode('ASCII'))
markdown_data = html2text(data)#.decode('utf-8', "replace")
data = data.replace("\n", "<br/>")
# return {markdown, html}
return {'markdown':unicode( markdown_data,"ISO-8859-1"), 'html':unicode(data,"ISO-8859-1")} if markdown_data else {'html':unicode(data,"ISO-8859-1")}
def message_content_html(self, userId, message_id, service):
"""
Make queries to get the content for a mail given its message id
Returns all the content
"""
content = {'id':message_id}
# try
message = service.users().messages().get(userId=userId, id=message_id).execute()
mimetype = message['payload']['mimeType']
if mimetype == 'text/html':
return {}
#
else:
body = self.get_message_body(message)
if body == "":
body = "<empty message>"
headers = self.extract_headers(message)
content['body'] = body
content.update(headers)
return content
def collect_mails(self, user, messages, service):
"""
Collect the content for all the mails currently downloaded
"""
all_messages = []
try:
for message in messages:
content = self.message_content_html(user.username, message['id'], service)
if content:
all_messages.append(content)
return all_messages
# return empty list if no messages were downloaded
except KeyError:
return []
def get(self, request, format=None):
"""
Handles the GET request to get all the mails for a label
Paginages through the GAPI content if required
API returns all the messages
{To, From, Subject, body}
"""
user = request.user
storage = Storage(CredentialsModel, 'id', user, 'credential')
credentials = storage.get()
http_auth = credentials.authorize(httplib2.Http())
service = build('gmail', 'v1', http=http_auth)
user_Id = user.username
label_id = request.GET['label']
# try
# call Google API with a request to get a list of all the labels
response = service.users().messages().list(userId=user_Id, labelIds=label_id, maxResults=100).execute()
all_messages = self.collect_mails(user, response['messages'], service)
if not all_messages:
return Response([])
else:
if 'nextPageToken' in response:
page_token_flag = True
# request more more mails if the download limit has not yet been satisfied
while(page_token_flag):
response = service.users().messages().list(userId=user_Id, pageToken=response['nextPageToken'], maxResults=100).execute()
all_messages.append(self.collect_mails(user, response['messages'], service))
print(all_messages)
#for x in range(0,len(all_messages)):
#b=all_messages[10]
#instance= UserData(user_id=user ,label=label_id, sender = b['From'] , subject=b['Subject'] , body=b['body'])
#instance.save()
page_token_flag = 'nextPageToken' in response
##
for x in range(0,len(all_messages)):
b=all_messages[10]
instance= UserData(user_id=user ,label=label_id, sender = b['From'] , subject=b['Subject'] , body=b['body'])
instance.save()
print ("Hi i am here!!!")
email = EmailMessage('Your Download Ready!', 'http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/gextracto/userdata/', to=[user], connection=connection)
email.send()
connection.close()
return Response(all_messages)
Please tell me the way to run it in background. if need any other info please do ask. Thanks

Don't know the exact requirements but I'll think about Celery to run background tasks. This approach allows to manage all post-script activities in native Django manner.
Also you can think about running the Django script using cron (as manage.py command) - but it can lead to some limitations.
What about sending emails failure - believe, you don't need to close connection after sending email. Usually I use send_mail()/send_mass_mail() functions - please, check their code to get an idea.