Overview

The EmailMessage (https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/topics/email/#the-emailmessage-class) class in Django accepts a number of arguments, and when you’re sending emails from your app, you need to supply them. Sometimes this is simple, as the values are fixed (i.e. from_email), whilst others are more dynamic (such as the message body).

One way or another you need to produce these values and pass them to the class.

And sometimes you want EmailMultipartMessage instead, for instane when you want to send plain text _and_ html.

The build_message function helps you do this by letting you pass arguments, as well as use blocks from a template to render others.

The Arguments

As shown in the Django docs, the EmailMessage class takes the following arguments:

• subject
• body
• from_email
• to
• bcc
• connection
• attachments
• headers
• cc
• reply_to

The build_message function will accept and and all of them as keyword arguments, but will also try to render any blocks with those names from the provided template and update the values from there.

Any mix of keyword and template supplied arguments is valid, as long as there are enough to satisfy the EmailMessage class.

The unsent message instance is returned, so you can update fields, override them, add attachments or headers, or anything else you like before sending.