This proposal attempts to address the following issues:
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/6989 (14 years old)
https://github.com/django/django/pull/13728
and
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/31885
https://github.com/django/django/pull/13305
Currently all the parameters to configure the email backend are located
in the global namespace, typically starting with EMAIL_...
This in the past led to discussions whenever a new configuration parameter
was required, because it added another entry to the yet too long list of
configuration
settings.
Since Django allows us to use more than one email backend concurrently,
why don't we configure them in a similar way as we already do it with
database, caching or template engine backends?
Such a configuration setting then may look like:
EMAIL = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend',
'HOST': 'smtp.example.org',
'HOST_USER': 'smtp_user',
'HOST_PASSWORD': 'smtp_secret',
'PORT': 25,
'FQDN': 'example.org',
# all other related directives
}
]
This would allow each email backend to "bring" its own configuration
settings
contained in their own dictionary. Adding extra settings to this dict will
certainly
lead to less discussions as we currently have.
Personally, I would prefer SMTP = {...} as the main configuration
directive, but EMAIL seems to be more popular in Django.
This would mean that the configuration directives starting from here
<https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/ref/settings/#email-backend> will
have
to be replaced, by their counterparts as explained before.
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