send-email-alert

This app will send periodic email alert using CELERY and CELERY-BEAT After hitting specific django API

In linux Install rabbitmq server..

sudo apt-get install erlang

sudo apt-get install rabbitmq-server

sudo systemctl enable rabbitmq-server

sudo systemctl start rabbitmq-server

sudo systemctl status rabbitmq-server

You can check queue dashboard on localhost:15672 after enabling plugins

sudo rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_management

default username: guest

default password: guest

update settings.py

EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = "example@gmail.com"   <!--- put your email here. --->
EMAIL_HOST = "smtp.gmail.com"
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'PASSWORD'  <!--- put your email password here.)--->
EMAIL_RECEIVER_LIST = ['RECEIVER1','RECEIVER2']

CELERY_BROKER_URL = 'amqp://guest:guest@localhost'
worker_redirect_stdouts_level = 'ERROR'
CELERY_TIMEZONE = 'Asia/Kolkata'
CELERY_BEAT_SCHEDULE = {
'hourly_pullevents': {
'task': 'telecom.tasks.send_email_task',
'schedule': crontab(minute='*/2', hour='*'),   <!--- This will send email after every 2 min.--->
},

Run django server from myapi folder

python3 manage.py runserver

Run celery worker from myapi folder

celery -A myapi worker -l info

Run celery beat from myapi folder

celery -A myapi beat -l info

now hit api(http://127.0.0.1:8000/index) to get periodic email like this after every 2 minutes