The right way to email your users

When you build a web application you need to email your users for password resets, orders placed and the like.

A trivial task, it seems. Here's a one-liner in django:

from django.core.mail import send_mail

send_mail("Password changed!",
          f"Hey {request.user.first_name}!\n\nYour password changed...",
          "support@yourservice.com",
          [request.user.email],
          fail_silently=False)

A one-liner. Problem solved, now moving on.

But soon after, issues arise:

1. You want to include some special characters like '🙂' or 'schön'. The one-liner no longer works.


2. You need some conditional …

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