Receiving Email Using AppEngine and Django

While Python AppEngine documentation give a good example on receiving email on AppEngine, but for me it take time to figure out how to do that in Django.

For those who haven’t yet figure out how to do that, let me save your time.

Configuring Your App to Receive Email

Incoming email is disabled by default. To enable the incoming email service, you must add a few lines in your app.yaml

inbound_services:
- mail

If your project name is example, your application can receive email at addresses test@example.appspotmail.com

Now your incoming email service is enable, you need to understand that incoming emails are sent to your application as POST request using URL :

  /_ah/mail/address

So in your Django project you need to add url to receive messages sent by the incoming email service.

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    ...
    (r'^_ah/mail/test@example.appspotmail.com$', 'example.views.email_handler')
)

Handling Incoming Email

After setting your configuration to receive email, now we need to create view to handle incoming email.

import logging
 
from django.views.decorators.csrf import csrf_exempt
 
from google.appengine.api import mail
 
@csrf_exempt    
def email_handler(request):
    if request.POST:
        message = mail.InboundEmailMessage(request.raw_post_data)        
        logging.info("Received a message from: " + message.sender)
    return HttpResponse('ok')

That’s it. Have fun with AppEngine and Django.

Tags: app engine, django

June 30th, 2010 | Comments(5)

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Pingback by Tweets that mention Receiving Email Using AppEngine and Django | KomunitasWeb -- Topsy.com — June 30, 2010 @ 9:03 pm
Awesome tutorial that has made me think of adding a feature I wanted to for a while. Thanks! Do you know how to do this under django, but not running on app engine?

Comment by Alex — July 28, 2010 @ 11:50 pm
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