I'm trying to send mail using SparkPost SMTP API
response = spark.transmissions.send(
recipients=['[email protected]'],
text='hi',
content={
"template_id": "my-first-email",
"from":{"name": "someone", "email": "[email protected]"},
},
subject='Subject Line',
substitution_data={
"name": "Your Name"
}
)
As per documentation it should work but I am getting the following error.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "sendmail.py", line 69, in <module>
sparkpost()
File "sendmail.py", line 65, in sparkpost
"name": "Rupesh"
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/sparkpost/transmissions.py", line 254, in send
results = self.request('POST', self.uri, data=json.dumps(payload))
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/sparkpost/base.py", line 41, in request
**kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/sparkpost/base.py", line 16, in request
raise SparkPostAPIException(response)
sparkpost.exceptions.SparkPostAPIException: Call to https://api.sparkpost.com/api/v1/transmissions returned 422, errors:
required field is missing Code: 1400 Description: content.from is a required field
PS- Everything works fine with Postman examples provided by Sparkpost.
When you use a stored template (by setting template_id), you do not need to set content or subject since they are embedded in the template. You can make your call like this:
response = sp.transmissions.send(
recipients=['[email protected]'],
template='my-template-id'
)
Also, the python-sparkpost API client provides a layer on top of the SparkPost API so the parameters for SparkPost.transmissions.send() are not a 1:1 match for the API. The full documentation for python-sparkpost is available here.
Here's a relevant sample from the Python client too.