# Backends

Wailer comes with its own backends for email and SMS sending (based of course on
external services).

This ensures:

-   No extra library is depended upon
-   All requests have proper timeouts (aka not made with requests)
-   Everything is maintained at each release

## Emails

### Mailjet

In order to use Mailjet, you need to set the following Django settings:

-   `EMAIL_BACKEND` — Must be set to
    `"wailer.backends.MailjetEmailBackend"`
-   `MAILJET_API_KEY_PUBLIC` — Contains the public API key
-   `MAILJET_API_KEY_PRIVATE` — Contains the private API key

### Mandrill

An Mandrill backend is also available.

-   `EMAIL_BACKEND` — Must be set to
    `"wailer.backends.MandrillEmailBackend"`
-   `MANDRILL_API_KEY` — Contains the API key

## SMS

### Mailjet

Uses the Mailjet SMS service. Once it's configured and paid for, you can set the
following settings:

-   `SMS_BACKEND` — Must be set to `"wailer.backends.MailjetSmsBackend"`
-   `MAILJET_API_TOKEN` — Is the API Token that you get from the Mailjet
    console