Hi all, If you have been using the new email backend feature in trunk, you should be aware that SVN revision 12084 introduces a small, but backwards-incompatible change.
If you are using Django 1.1 (i.e., Django stable), or you haven't manually specified EMAIL_BACKEND in your settings file, you will not be affected by this change. This change only affects users who are using a recent Django Trunk checkout, AND have manually specified EMAIL_BACKEND in their settings file. These users will need to make a small configuration change. When the email backend feature was committed in revision 11709, the EMAIL_BACKEND setting was specified at the level of a module. That is, if you were using the file-based backend, you would have specified: EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.filebased' As of revision 12084, this has been modified to be a class-level specification. You must now specify: EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.filebased.EmailBackend' Rather than specifying the module that contains the email backend class, you need to specify the full name of the backend class. This means you need to append ".EmailBackend" to any existing EMAIL_BACKEND setting. This has been done to normalize the way that pluggable backends are defined in Django. At the time that the email backend was committed, no formal policy had been set regarding conventions for specifying backends. A policy emerged as a result of the introduction of session-based messages. Since email backends have not yet been part of a formal Django release, we have decided to make this change to maintain consistency between the backends that will be introduced in v1.2. Apologies for any inconvenience this causes to those of you on the bleeding edge. Yours, Russ Magee %-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-develop...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
