Add support for sending emails directly through MTA

[Ivan Giuliani]

What I'm volunteering to do is to add support for sending email directly through the MTA (i.e.: /usr/bin/sendmail or whatever).

[Russell Keith-Magee]

Django has a basic mail solution to make simple admin mailouts easy. If there are other applications, that's great, but Django's purpose in life is not to be a mass mail solution. If your mailing needs are sufficiently complex that you need direct access to the MTA, code up a solution and use it as an external project. Theres no reason that this needs to be part of the Django core.

[pere]

From ​https://djangosnippets.org/snippets/1864/ it can be seen that there has been code around to do this since at least 2010. There is already a python package available from ​https://github.com/perenecabuto/django-sendmail-backend/ , which is also available from pipy.

The backend is only 50 lines of code. It is a pitty it isn't part of the default Django distribution, given that /usr/sbin/sendmail is the standard way to send email on a unix and linux server.