I've added a send_email_task to wrap django.core.mail.send_mail -- I'm using it for testing but I think it could be useful in general.

I've used it to test celerybeat.  In my local me.py, I added the following setting:

CELERYBEAT_SCHEDULE = {
    "runs-every-30-seconds": {
        "task": "regluit.core.tasks.send_mail_task",
        "schedule": datetime.timedelta(seconds=60),
        "args": ('hi there', 'testing 1, 2, 3', 'raymond.yee@gmail.com', ['raymond.yee@gmail.com'])
    },
}

and then ran

	django-admin.py celerybeat -l INFO

and started getting email sent to me every minute!

core/tasks.py

@@ -47,6 +47,16 @@ def fac(n, sleep_interval=None):
                 sleep(sleep_interval)
         return res
 
+from django.core import mail
+
+@task
+def send_mail_task(subject, message, from_email, recipient_list,
+	        fail_silently=False, auth_user=None, auth_password=None,
+	        connection=None):
+    """a task to drop django.core.mail.send_mail into """
+    return mail.send_mail(subject, message, from_email, recipient_list, fail_silently, auth_user, auth_password, connection)
+    
+
 from notification.engine import send_all
  
 @task