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Trigger an email to admin when new user registers in a Django app

I'd like to trigger a simple plaintext email to admin(s) when a new user registers for my Django app. What's the cleanest way to do this?

Solution

  • You can use a post save signal for this. For example:

    # <app>/signals.py:

from django.contrib.auth.models import User
from django.db.models.signals import post_save
from django.dispatch import receiver

from django.core.mail import send_mail

@receiver(post_save, sender=User)
def send_email_to_admin(sender, instance, created, **kwargs):
    if created:
        send_mail(
            '<Subject>User {} has been created'.format(instance.username),
            '<Body>A new user has been created',
            'from@example.com',
            ['admin@example.com'],
            fail_silently=False,
        )


# <app>/apps.py
from django.apps import AppConfig


class YourAppConfig(AppConfig):
   name = 'app_name'
   verbose_name = _('app_name')

   def ready(self):
     import .signals  # noqa

    Here, I am using django's mail sending functionality as example, if you are using that then please make sure you have properly configured the settings.