Flask-Mailman-Templates

Templates for Flask-Mailman

• Define your emails as templates
• Optionnaly use a yaml frontmatter to define metadata like subject
• Support for markdown emails
• Support for MJML
• Inline css using premailer
• Optionnaly auto generate text alternative from html emails (if html2text is installed)

Installation

pip install flask-mailman-templates

Usage

Initialize Flask-Mailman first then Flask-Mailman-Templates:

from flask import Flask
from flask_mailman import Mail
from flask_mailman_templates import MailTemplates

app = Flask(__name__)
mail = Mail(app)
mail_templates = MailTemplates(app)

Create templates in an email folder. Example email/hello.txt:

---
subject: Hello world
---
Hello from Flask!

Send your email using either TemplatedEmailMessage or send_mail():

from flask_mailman_templates import TemplatedEmailMessage, send_mail

msg = TemplatedEmailMessage("hello.txt", "[email protected]")
msg.send()

# or

send_mail("hello.txt", "[email protected]")

The frontmatter is optionnal and options can be passed as keyword arguments (keyword args override the frontmatter if both are used)

send_mail("hello.txt", "[email protected]", subject="hello world")

Supported formats

Format	File extension	Required dependency	Description
txt	txt		Text email only
HTML	html		HTML email only
Markdown	md	markdown	Text + HTML email
MJML	mjml	mjml	HTML email only

If html2text is installed, HTML emails will be automatically converted to text and both content types will be attached (does not apply to markdown).

Configuration

Config key	Extension argument	Description	Default
MAIL_TEMPLATES_FOLDER	template_folder	Location of email templates	emails
MAIL_TEMPLATES_MARKDOWN_OPTIONS	markdown_options	Options for the markdown function	{}
MAIL_TEMPLATES_INLINE_CSS	inline_css	Whether to inline css with premailer if installed	True
MAIL_TEMPLATES_AUTO_TEXT_BODY_FROM_HTML	auto_text_body_from_html	Whether to convert HTML content to text content if html2text is installed	True