[tor-bugs] #10769 [Tor Weather]: write weathers emails to a file

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#10769: write weathers emails to a file
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     Reporter:  feverDream   |      Owner:  feverDream
         Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  assigned
     Priority:  normal       |  Milestone:
    Component:  Tor Weather  |    Version:
   Resolution:               |   Keywords:  weather-rewrite
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Comment (by karsten):

 Actually, I shouldn't have commented on GitHub, but here.  Moving the
 discussion here again.

 So, here's some feedback on
 https://github.com/achintangal/weather/tree/68035eeea9d26c7f64efd9dbe54845ac4f0e1430:

 It looks like Django already provides a convenient way to write email to a
 file rather than sending it out:
 https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/topics/email/#file-backend.  Huh!
 Mind trying that out?

 If it works, we shouldn't hack something ourselves.  How about we comment
 out the current email settings that send out actual mail in settings.py
 and instead put in the file email backend as default?  So, whenever we set
 up weather for local testing or for testing in a local VM using Vagrant,
 emails would be written to a file.  And when we deploy on the server, we'd
 put in real SMTP settings.

 By the way, I somehow like the idea of using different settings files in a
 settings/ directory for the different environments.  I'm just not sure if
 it's overkill for weather, because the environments aren't that different.
 But in any case, this discussion deserves a ticket of its own, and the
 code changes deserve their own branch.  Mind opening a ticket and move the
 discussion there?

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