Mailipy

This is a software to make the task of sending bulk emails to a list of contacts easier.

Installation

$ pip install mailipy

In order to send emails, you need to first generate them and later send them.

Generating emails

You need to prepare a template.md file which must have a YAML front matter (similarly to what you find in Jekyll). See the example for the keywords required in the front matter.

The command to create the emails is the following:

$ mailipy-gen template.md contacts.csv

This will create as many emails as there are records in contacts.csv. The emails will be stored in outbox/ by default. You can use a third parameter to change the outbox destination folder.

Sending emails

Once you created the emails, run the following command (changing the outbox directory accordingly):

$ mailipy-send mail.example.com:528 my_username outbox

The command will inform you of how many emails are going to be sent, and then will prompt you for a password.

Contributing

You can make changes to the gen.py and send.py scripts, and test these changes by running a local version of Mailipy. After testing your changes, you can open a pull request.

Running a local version of Mailipy

1. Make sure you have pipenv installed in your system.
2. Run pipenv install followed by pipenv shell from the root of the source directory.
3. Install by running python setup.py install from the root of the source directory.
4. Now you can run mailipy-gen and mailipy-send, and these will include your local changes. You can verify that you're running a different binary than the one installed with pip by running which mailipy-gen: the command will return the full path of the binary you're using.

Running tests

After installing with pipenv install and entering the pipenv shell, run the following:

$ pytest

The command will search recursively for files named *_test.py and run them. See the pytest documentation.