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If I want to send email through Django and DotCloud, how should I do it? Should I send it through Django, https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/email/, or DotCloud, http://docs.dotcloud.com/services/smtp/? I want to be able to send out batch emails through the Admin interface in Django. Is django-mailer (won't let me post link) what I want to send through the admin?

EDIT I: I guess in general I was curious if anyone had any implementations of SMTP emailing through the Django Admin.
EDIT II: I actually decided to try django-newsletter (won't let me post link), since I want to send bulk emails to custom lists from the admin.
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I haven't fully understood the advantage of using dotCloud's SMTP service.

I have sent emails using the regular Django way (I put the right hosts, username, etc for a GMail account in settings.py and used the regular functions/classes) and have had no problems.

I have found admin actions extremely useful. Actions are very easy to write and I am sure it's possible to write one that sends emails.

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    Thanks so much for the link to admin actions. They seem to be just what I am looking for. I decided that using [celery](http://celeryproject.org/) would be best for me, so that I can send bulk emails in the background. – saul.shanabrook Sep 03 '11 at 03:54
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    DotCloud SMTP service is useful if you need to queue outgoing mails *and* require scaling. If you queue an outgoing mail on a web front-end, and then scale down that web front-end, the outgoing mail will be lost (if it's still in queue when you scale down). Granted, that's not something you need every day, but when you do, it's convenient :-) – jpetazzo Sep 08 '11 at 00:52