use the console email backend by default, which is good for local tes…

…ting, or sparkpost if a setting is set

fixes #144

settings.env.template

@@ -74,3 +74,4 @@ FACEBOOK_AUTH_SCOPE=email
 GOOGLE_APP_ID=fill this in
 GOOGLE_APP_SECRET=fill this in
 GOOGLE_AUTH_SCOPE="openid email"
+SPARKPOST_API_KEY=fill this in

settings.py

@@ -63,10 +63,8 @@
 CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE = not DEBUG # similarly
 SESSION_SERIALIZER = 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' # needed by openid login
 
-EMAIL_HOST = 'localhost'
-EMAIL_PORT = 587
-#EMAIL_HOST_USER = ''
-#EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = ''
+EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.console.EmailBackend'
+EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX = '[GovTrack] '
 
 # List of callables that know how to import templates from various sources.
 TEMPLATE_LOADERS = (
@@ -170,9 +168,6 @@
 EMAIL_UPDATES_RETURN_PATH = "GovTrack.us Email Updates <bounces+uid=%[email protected]>"
 BOUNCES_UID_REGEX = re.compile(r"<?bounces\+uid=(\d+)@GovTrack\.us>?", re.I)
 
-#if DEBUG: # sometimes we debug in a live environment
-#	EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.console.EmailBackend'
-
 # Load settings from the environment
 from settings_env import *
 

settings_env.py

@@ -80,10 +80,19 @@ def get_env_boolvar(var_name, default=NOT_SET):
     "GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_KEY",
     "TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN", # for automated tweets and to update @GovTrack/Members-of-Congress twitter list
     "TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET",
+    "SPARKPOST_API_KEY",
 ]
 for var in copy_env_vars:
     locals()[var] = get_env_variable(var, default='')
 
+if SPARKPOST_API_KEY:
+    EMAIL_BACKEND = 'sparkpost.django.email_backend.SparkPostEmailBackend'
+    SPARKPOST_OPTIONS = {
+        'track_opens': False,
+        'track_clicks': False,
+        'transactional': True,
+    }
+
 # TODO. The ad-free payment requires something like this:
 #import paypalrestsdk
 #paypalrestsdk.configure(mode="sandbox", client_id="...", client_secret="...")