Email distribution project

The project allows you to send emails by storing templates in the database. The opening of the email is also tracked by a pixel built into the email. Celery and Redis are used.

Getting Started

The first thing to do is to clone the repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/polina-koval/email_distribution.git
$ cd email_distribution

Create a virtual environment to install dependencies in and activate it:

$ virtualenv venv  
$ source venv/bin/activate

Then install the dependencies:

(venv)$ pip install -r requirements.txt

There is a file in the repo ".env.example", this file for use in local development. Duplicate this file as .env in the root of the project and update the environment variables SECRET_KEY, EMAIL_HOST_USER, EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD, etc.

$ cp .env.example .env

Once pip has finished downloading the dependencies and the variable is updated:

Django:

(venv)$ python manage.py migrate
(venv)$ python manage.py createsuperuser
(venv)$ python manage.py runserver

Redis:

(venv)$ docker run -d -p 6379:6379 redis

Celery:

(venv)$ celery -A email_distribution worker -l info 

After configuring and running, go to the admin panel. In it(users app), as a test, you can send emails to existing users (just create email template with template_key = "test"). In template you can use value in format {{value}}. Value can be user.username, user.email, user.first_name, user.last_name, etc.