cement.core.mail

Cement core mail module.

class cement.core.mail.MailHandler(**kw: Any)

Bases: MailInterface, Handler

Mail handler implementation.

Configuration

This handler supports the following configuration settings:

• to - Default to addresses (list, or comma separated depending on the ConfigHandler in use)

• from_addr - Default from_addr address

• cc - Default cc addresses (list, or comma separated depending on the ConfigHandler in use)

• bcc - Default bcc addresses (list, or comma separated depending on the ConfigHandler in use)

• subject - Default subject

• subject_prefix - Additional string to prepend to the subject

class Meta

Bases: Meta

Handler meta-data (can be passed as keyword arguments to the parent class).

config_defaults: Dict[str, Any] = {'bcc': [], 'cc': [], 'from_addr': 'noreply@example.com', 'subject': 'Default Subject Line', 'subject_prefix': '', 'to': []}

Configuration default values

_setup(app_obj: App) → None

Called during application initialization and must setup the handler object making it ready for the framework or the application to make further calls to it.

Parameters:

app (instance) – The application object.

class cement.core.mail.MailInterface(**kw: Any)

Bases: Interface

This class defines the Mail Interface. Handlers that implement this interface must provide the methods and attributes defined below. In general, most implementations should sub-class from the provided MailHandler base class as a starting point.

class Meta

Bases: Meta

Handler meta-data.

interface: str = 'mail'

The label identifier of the interface.

abstractmethod send(body: str, **kwargs: Any) → bool

Send a mail message. Keyword arguments override configuration defaults (cc, bcc, etc).

Parameters:

body (str) – The message body to send

Keyword Arguments:

• to (list) – List of recipients (generally email addresses)

• from_addr (str) – Address (generally email) of the sender

• cc (list) – List of CC Recipients

• bcc (list) – List of BCC Recipients

• subject (str) – Message subject line

Returns:

True if message was sent successfully, False otherwise

Return type:

bool

Example

# Using all configuration defaults
app.mail.send('This is my message body')

# Overriding configuration defaults
app.mail.send('My message body'
    to=['john@example.com'],
    from_addr='me@example.com',
    cc=['jane@example.com', 'rita@example.com'],
    subject='This is my subject',
    )