The code is now also available at Github: https://github.com/arneb/django-messages

A user-to-user messaging system for Django

Django-messages enables your users to send private messages to each other. It provides a basic set of functionality your would expect from such a system. Every user has an Inbox, an Outbox and a Trash. Messages can be composed and there is an easy url-based approach to preloading the compose-form with the recipient-user, which makes it extremly easy to put "send xyz a message" links on a profile-page.

Currently (svn-trunk) django-messages comes with these translations:

• de
• fr (thanks froland and dpaccoud)
• es_AR (thanks Juanjo-sfe)
• pl (thanks maczewski)
• es (thanks paz.lupita)
• pt_BR (thanks Diego Martins)
• ru (thanks overkrik)
• nl (thanks krisje8)
• da (thanks Michael Lind Mortensen)
• el (thanks Markos Gogoulos)
• zh_CN (thanks Gene Wu)
• ar (thanks to speedy)
• it (thanks to Sergio Morstabilini)

If you want to add a translation of fix one of the current translations you can easily do it via Transifex at: http://www.transifex.net/projects/p/django-messages/c/trunk/

Versions

• The upcoming messages-0.5.x will be (and therefore svn trunk is) compatible with Django 1.2; users of Django 1.1 should continue using messages-0.4.x; if you are upgrading from 0.4.x to 0.5.x please read the UPGRADING docs.
• messages-0.4.x is compatible with Django 1.1 (and may work with Django 1.0). The code is avaliable as a Branch.
• messages-0.3 is compatible with Django 1.0, but no longer maintained
• messages-0.2 is still compatible with Django 0.96.x, but not longer maintaned. The code is avalibale as a Branch.

Documentation

The documentation is contained in the /docs/ directory and can be build with sphinx. A HTML version of the documentation is available at: http://files.arnebrodowski.de/software/django-messages/Documentation/

Install

Download the tar archive, unpack and run python setup.py install or checkout the trunk and put the messages folder on your PYTHONPATH. Released versions of django-messages are also available on pypi and can be intalled with easy_install or pip.

Usage

Add messages to your INSTALLED_APPS setting and add an include('messages.urls') at any point in your url-conf.

The app includes some default templates, which are pretty simple. They extend a template called "base.html" and only emit stuff in the block "content" and block "sidebar". You may want to use your own templates, but the included ones are good enough for testing and getting started.

Dependencies

Django-messages has no external dependencied except for django. But if django-notification and/or django-mailer are found it will make use of them. Note: as of r65 django-messages will only use django-notification if 'notification' is also added to the INSTALLES_APPS setting. This has been done to make situations possible where notification is on pythonpath but should not be used, or where notification is an other python package as django-notification which has the same name.

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