Passing Unique Variable when Sending E-Mail with Django

Question

In my Django project I have leads which belong to an organization. One of my views filters these leads by organization and then e-mails them a message. This message is in the form of an html template.

Currently this is how I do it:

# FIRST: get a list of all the emails
leads_email = []

leads = Lead.objects.filter(organization=organization)
for lead in leads:
    if lead.email != None:
        leads_email.append(lead.email)


# SECOND: Django email functions
msg = EmailMessage(subject, 
                  get_template('email_templates/campaign_email.html').render(
                        {
                            'message': message,
                        }
                    ),
                    from_email,
                    bcc=to_list)
msg.content_subtype = "html"
msg.send()

However each lead has a unique code associated with them, this field is found under lead.code. I would like to include this code in the email.

For example if test@mail.com's unique code is "test123", then I want to include that in the email to test@mail.com alone. I am currently doing this by passing though a variable called message, however this is not unique and every lead gets the same thing.

Any idea on how I can accomplish this? Thanks

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 13 '17 at 19:37

If you've got email content that is specific to each object, you'll have to send the emails individually rather than in bulk. So you just need to include the email code in your loop;

leads = Lead.objects.filter(organization=organization)
for lead in leads:
    if lead.email != None:
        msg = EmailMessage(
            subject, 
            get_template('email_templates/campaign_email.html').render(
                {
                    'message': message,
                    'code': lead.code
                }
            ),
            from_email,
            [lead.email, ]
        )
        msg.content_subtype = "html"
        msg.send()

Passing Unique Variable when Sending E-Mail with Django

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