Mails to be sent are added in a queue thanks to Django Mailer (todo: configure cron)

note_kfet/settings/base.py

@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ INSTALLED_APPS = [
     # 'theme',
 
     # External apps
+    'mailer',
     'polymorphic',
     'crispy_forms',
     'django_tables2',

note_kfet/settings/production.py

@@ -33,7 +33,8 @@ ALLOWED_HOSTS = [os.environ.get('NOTE_URL', 'localhost')]
 SECRET_KEY = os.environ.get('DJANGO_SECRET_KEY', 'CHANGE_ME_IN_ENV_SETTINGS')
 
 # Emails
-EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
+EMAIL_BACKEND = 'mailer.backend.DbBackend'  # Mailer place emails in a queue before sending them to avoid spam
+MAILER_EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
 EMAIL_USE_SSL = False
 EMAIL_HOST = os.getenv('EMAIL_HOST', 'smtp.example.org')
 EMAIL_PORT = os.getenv('EMAIL_PORT', 465)

requirements/base.txt

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ django-allauth==0.39.1
 django-crispy-forms==1.7.2
 django-extensions==2.1.9
 django-filter==2.2.0
+django-mailer==2.0.1
 django-polymorphic==2.0.3
 django-tables2==2.1.0
 docutils==0.14