python - How to send html email with django with dynamic content in it?

Question

Can anyone please help me sending html email with dynamic contents. One way is to copy the entire html code into a variable and populate the dynamic code within it in Django views, but that does not seem to be a good idea, as its a very large html file.

I would appreciate any suggestions.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Django includes the django.core.mail.send_mail method these days (2018), no need to use EmailMultiAlternatives class directly. Do this instead:

from django.core import mail
from django.template.loader import render_to_string
from django.utils.html import strip_tags

subject = 'Subject'
html_message = render_to_string('mail_template.html', {'context': 'values'})
plain_message = strip_tags(html_message)
from_email = 'From <[email protected]>'
to = '[email protected]'

mail.send_mail(subject, plain_message, from_email, [to], html_message=html_message)

This will send an email which is visible in both html-capable browsers and will show plain text in crippled email viewers.