Sending non-registration related emails

Anvil Q&A
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I’m very new to Anvil, but have been reading through the docs and tutorials. I don’t see a tutorial on sending emails, and the reference index shows a section for sending and receiving emails, but those links don’t go anywhere. The sending email with Gmail section suggests using an external service for sending larger quantities of email.

I also don’t see any cookbook entries for sending emails. What is the recommended way to send and receive emails through an Anvil app for a site that might exceed the Gmail limits?

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You can use an external service such as Mailgun. I have an example somewhere, I’ll post it when I find it.

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Ok,sending in its simplest form (account details redacted) :

@anvil.server.callable
def send_email():
  resp = anvil.http.request(
      url="https://api.mailgun.net/v3/sandboxxxxxxxxxxxxx.mailgun.org/messages",
      method="POST",
      data={"from": "MyTest <xxx@xxx.mydomain.com>",
              "to": "XXXX <xxxxe@xxx.com>",
              "subject": "Hello",
              "text": "Congratulations, you just sent an email with Mailgun!"},
      username="api",
      password="key-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx")

I’ve not done receiving yet, but I’m sure it’s not hard.

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Thanks, David! I appreciate the code sample, I can adapt that to whatever email service I end up with.

5

np. If you get stuck let me know.

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In the event that someone else finds this topic without also finding the recent announcement about Anvil supported emails, here’s the blog post:

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Suggestion: list it in “Announcements”.

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Possibly my one gripe with Anvil - I never, ever see their announcements. I either stumble across them well after they’ve been posted or I catch a forum thread like this one. I had no idea that existed.

edit - hmm, though I’m ashamed to say I did miss it in the “services” … I must not have logged out/in for a while. I usually spot things like that :slight_smile:

edit edit - ah, I also see that post was today (blush) - I’m really not paying attention this week …

edit edit edit - almost on cue I got an email from @meredydd announcing the feature. I’m going back to bed …

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