Impossible to use a non-smtp backend

[tino]

None of django's other backends than the smtp backend can be used, as for example the console backend. This because django-mailer-2 uses the connection attribute of the backend directly, and those backends have no such attribute.

I tryed fixing this by checking for this attribute like-so:

if hasattr(smtp_connection, 'connection'):
                smtp_connection.connection.sendmail(message.from_address,
                                                    [message.to_address],
                                                    message.encoded_message)
else:
    smtp_connection.send_messages([message])

But that doesn't work because the send_messages method expects a django.core.mail.messages.EmailMessage instance, instead of the django_mailer.models.EmailMessage that is passed. And calling the backend 'smtp_connection' what is not is strange as well.

How to solve this? As it is quite nice to be able to test mail sending in development...

[colinhowe]

I'm looking at how to do this. We're wanting to use Amazon SES so we cannot assume SMTP.