Multiple email connections

2011-02-22 Thread Niran Babalola
Multiple databases and caches can currently be configured in one's settings file. It'd be nice if the same could be done with email connections. For example, Amazon's SES starts out new users with a low quota that they gradually increase, so splitting emails between SES and other connections to sta

Re: Multiple email connections

2011-02-22 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Niran Babalola wrote: > Multiple databases and caches can currently be configured in one's > settings file. It'd be nice if the same could be done with email > connections. For example, Amazon's SES starts out new users with a low > quota that they gradually increa

Re: Multiple email connections

2011-02-23 Thread Brendan Smith
+1 On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Russell Keith-Magee < russ...@keith-magee.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Niran Babalola wrote: > > Multiple databases and caches can currently be configured in one's > > settings file. It'd be nice if the same could be done with email > > conne

Re: Multiple email connections

2011-02-23 Thread Luke Plant
On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 19:02 -0600, Niran Babalola wrote: > Multiple databases and caches can currently be configured in one's > settings file. It'd be nice if the same could be done with email > connections. For example, Amazon's SES starts out new users with a low > quota that they gradually incre

Re: Multiple email connections

2011-02-23 Thread Niran Babalola
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Luke Plant wrote: > Is it not possible to do this already, by writing your own backend that > splits up e-mails as you see fit? Yes, but it'd be nice if the get_connection arguments for each connection type could be easily referenced by name. Distributing emails

Re: Multiple email connections

2011-02-23 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 1:44 AM, Luke Plant wrote: > On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 19:02 -0600, Niran Babalola wrote: >> Multiple databases and caches can currently be configured in one's >> settings file. It'd be nice if the same could be done with email >> connections. For example, Amazon's SES starts o

Re: Multiple email connections

2011-02-23 Thread Paul McMillan
I agree that this makes a lot of sense for 1.4. Probably the most common use case is going to be separating classes of emails (mass-mails (mailchimp or constant contact), transactional (amazon ses or your provider's mailserver), backend admin notifications (server sendmail or local mail spool), et