emails are sent asynchronously using celery and redis

jdav_web/jdav_web/celery.py

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+import os
+from celery import Celery
+
+from django.conf import settings
+
+# set the default Django settings module for the 'celery' program.
+os.environ.setdefault('DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE', 'jdav_web.settings')
+
+app = Celery()
+app.config_from_object('django.conf:settings')
+app.autodiscover_tasks(settings.INSTALLED_APPS)
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    app.start()

jdav_web/jdav_web/settings.py

@@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ INSTALLED_APPS = [
     'members.apps.MembersConfig',
     'mailer.apps.MailerConfig',
     'easy_select2',
+    'djcelery_email',
+    'djcelery',
     'django.contrib.admin',
     'django.contrib.auth',
     'django.contrib.contenttypes',
@@ -162,8 +164,15 @@ EMAIL_PORT = 587 if deployed else 25
 EMAIL_HOST_USER = os.environ.get('EMAIL_HOST_USER', '')
 EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = os.environ.get('EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD', '')
 EMAIL_USE_TLS = True if deployed else False
+EMAIL_BACKEND = 'djcelery_email.backends.CeleryEmailBackend'
 
 
 # Admin setup
 
 ADMINS = (('admin', 'christian@merten-moser.de'),)
+
+
+# Celery and Redis setup
+REDIS_HOST = 'localhost'
+REDIS_PORT = '6379'
+BROKER_URL = 'redis://' + REDIS_HOST + ':' + REDIS_PORT + '/0'

jdav_web/mailer/models.py

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
 from django.utils.translation import ugettext
 from .mailutils import send, get_content, NOT_SENT, SENT, PARTLY_SENT, mail_root
 from utils import RestrictedFileField
+from jdav_web.celery import app
 
 import os