django1/django/core/mail/backends/base.py

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"""Base email backend class."""
class BaseEmailBackend:
"""
Base class for email backend implementations.
Subclasses must at least overwrite send_messages().
open() and close() can be called indirectly by using a backend object as a
context manager:
with backend as connection:
# do something with connection
pass
"""
def __init__(self, fail_silently=False, **kwargs):
self.fail_silently = fail_silently
def open(self):
"""Open a network connection.
This method can be overwritten by backend implementations to
open a network connection.
It's up to the backend implementation to track the status of
a network connection if it's needed by the backend.
This method can be called by applications to force a single
network connection to be used when sending mails. See the
send_messages() method of the SMTP backend for a reference
implementation.
The default implementation does nothing.
"""
pass
def close(self):
"""Close a network connection."""
pass
def __enter__(self):
try:
self.open()
except Exception:
self.close()
raise
return self
def __exit__(self, exc_type, exc_value, traceback):
self.close()
def send_messages(self, email_messages):
"""
Sends one or more EmailMessage objects and returns the number of email
messages sent.
"""
raise NotImplementedError('subclasses of BaseEmailBackend must override send_messages() method')