Quick Tip - Testing Django send_mail

I’ve been working on a Django project lately and I had the need to send some emails from my application. I was trying to figure out how to write a mocked version of django.core.mail.send_mail when I read about django.core.mail.outbox, which apparently is a new feature of Django 1.0.

django.core.mail.outbox is a list of all instances of emails sent with django.core.mail.send_mail that is available only in the testing framework. With it you can do things like these:

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