MailNaut is a NodeJS app that will allow you to parse emails and prepare them for dissemination. This project is under heavy development and is missing a lot of core functionality.
MailNaut requires that you have NodeJS, NPM, and Bower installed. You can easily install NodeJS and NPM using the official installers here. After that, you can install bower using npm via:
npm install bower -g
That done, clone the MailNaut repo and install its dependencies using:
npm install
bower install
In /app/config.js you will be able to configure a directory for file outputs. By default, MailNaut will create an /app/output directory to use for HTML/Plaintext/Zip file generation.
Start MailNaut using the command:
node server.js
And access the app in your browser by visiting http://localhost:8080
MailNaut has several dependencies.
- Cheerio: jQuery-style DOM traversal API
- Connect-Multiparty: Express helper to allow multipart enctypes
- Express: Routing framework
- HTML-to-text: Easy HTML to text conversion
- Jade: Templating engine
- mime: Get mime types (useful for properly setting headers for zip downloads)
- mkdirp Allow directory creation
- Zip-stream: Zipping up files after they've been processed (not to be confused with the defunct zipstream module)
- jQuery (2.1.0)
Upload an HTML file and MailNaut will convert it to a plaintext version for you
When sending email campaigns, adding UTM variables to your links allows Google Analytics to track the campaigns performance. MailNaut has a tool that will parse your email files and insert proper UTM variables for each of your links.
MailNaut will parse your emails and give you some information about them. It will show you if you have broken hyperlinks and which text they relate to. Coming soon: MailNaut will review your template to make sure it meets some email best practices.