[Django]-Send a .txt with send_mail. Django

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If you want body of your email message to be the content of myfile.txt then (suppose myfile.txt is stored in media > files > myfile.txt):

from mysite.settings import MEDIA_ROOT
import os

file = open(MEDIA_ROOT + os.path.sep + 'files/myfile.txt', 'r')
content = file.read()
file.close()

# EmailMessage class version
mail = EmailMessage('subject', content, 'from@example.com', ['to@example.com'])
mail.send()

# send_mail version
send_mail('TEST', content, 'admin@test.com', [test@test.com], fail_silently=False)
👤Aamir Rind

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What you need is render_to_string, 

from django.template.loader import render_to_string
body = render_to_string('myfile.txt', foovars)
send_mail('TEST', body, 'admin@test.com', [test@test.com], fail_silently=False)

where foovars is a dict with the values that you need to render in the ‘template’ myfile.txt if proceed of course, else {}

be sure your myfile.txt lies on your template directory, that is all 😉

👤trinchet

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