[Answered ]-How do I make the built-in password_reset view use django-mailer?

Ahhh that was easy.

I just had to set

EMAIL_BACKEND = 'mailer.backend.DbBackend'

in the settings file, like this

Now, “normal” send_mail calls will behave like mailer.send_mail and store the email to the database.
So there’s no need to replace the calls themselves.