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def save_local_setting_JSON(dest, content):
        fwrite  = open(dest, 'wb')
        dict_json = eval(json.dumps(content))
        string_json =json.dumps(dict(dict_json))
        fwrite.write('EMAIL_DEVELOPMENT='+string_json+"\n")
        fwrite.close()

def config_mail_show(request, template='admin/config_mail.html'):
    form = forms.ConfigMailForm()# for for user input their mail config
    context = {
                'site_host' : settings.SITE_HOST,
                'default_from_email' : settings.DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL,
                'email_host' : settings.EMAIL_HOST,
                'email_port' : settings.EMAIL_PORT,
                'email_host_user' : settings.EMAIL_HOST_USER,
                'email_host_password' : settings.EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD,
                'email_use_tls' : settings.EMAIL_USE_TLS,
                'form':form
               }
    if request.method == "POST":
        form = forms.ConfigMailForm(request.method)
        save_local_setting_JSON('local_setting.py', request.POST)   
    return render_to_response(template, context)

local_setting.py will be in this format:

EMAIL_DEVELOPMENT={"email_host_password": "xxxxxx", "site_host": "127.0.0.1:8000", "default_from_email": "xxx xxx <[e-mail]>", "email_use_tls": "False", "email_port": "25","email_host_user": "[e-mail]", "email_host": "smtp.xxx.xx"}

In settings.py I Added

from local_setting import *
if EMAIL_DEVELOPMENT.has_key('save'):
    SITE_HOST = EMAIL_DEVELOPMENT['site_host']
    DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = EMAIL_DEVELOPMENT['default_from_email']
    EMAIL_HOST = EMAIL_DEVELOPMENT['email_host']
    EMAIL_PORT =EMAIL_DEVELOPMENT['email_port']
    EMAIL_HOST_USER = EMAIL_DEVELOPMENT['email_host_user']
    EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = EMAIL_DEVELOPMENT['email_host_password']
    EMAIL_USE_TLS = EMAIL_DEVELOPMENT['email_use_tls']
else:# My Development
    SITE_HOST = '127.0.0.1:8000'
    DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = 'xxxxx'
    EMAIL_HOST = 'xxxxx'
    EMAIL_PORT = 25
    EMAIL_HOST_USER ='xxxx'
    EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'xxxxx'
    EMAIL_USE_TLS = False

I Am not sure it’s good ways to make User Interface that provide user for they own configuration such as Mail.

everyone here Could give the good choice for do this?

Answer 1

settings.py is for site-wide settings. If you want each user to have their own settings, create a Model called user_settings (with an FK to the Users model of course) and use it to store the per-user settings.