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How to Send Emails in Django (2026)

Anymail is the canonical bridge. Most providers ship Anymail backends; pick a provider with a maintained backend rather than a raw SDK.

Anymail standardizes Django EmailBackend across providers, with first-class webhook handling. Async sends require Celery or a worker.

patterns

Send patterns

  • Anymail EmailBackend in settings.py.
  • Celery tasks for async sends.
  • Webhook views via Anymail signal handlers.
  • Django templates rendered to HTML before send.
pitfalls

Common mistakes

  • Synchronous send blocks the request without a worker.
  • Anymail backend mismatch between dev and prod.
  • EMAIL_BACKEND env override forgotten in CI.

provider picks for Django

  1. 01

    Postmark

    Transactional

    First-class Anymail backend; webhook signature helpers built in.

    100/mo developer plan · $15/mo for 10,000 emails
  2. 02

    Mailgun

    Transactional

    Anymail backend; queue-friendly.

    100/day permanent free plan · $15/mo for 10,000 emails (Basic)
  3. 03

    Amazon SES

    Transactional

    Anymail SES backend; pairs naturally with AWS-hosted Django.

    Up to $200 in AWS Free Tier credits for new accounts · $0.10 per 1,000 emails
  4. 04

    SendGrid

    Transactional Marketing

    Anymail backend; mature.

    60-day free trial only (permanent free tier was removed May 2025) · $19.95/mo for 50,000 emails
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reading this as SaaS product teams

A SaaS product sends on behalf of its customers, so the deciding factors are tenant isolation, whether suppressions can be scoped rather than global, and whether support can answer why one specific account did not receive one specific email. Lifecycle automation and transactional sending usually need to coexist.

Applied to how to send emails in django (2026), that means weighing multi-tenant support, event stream, the suppressions API, and operating track record ahead of the rest, against trial expiry notices, dunning, onboarding sequences, and per-tenant transactional mail.