PyMailer

Simple python bulk mailer script. Raw python using std libs.

Send bulk html emails from the commandline or in your python script by specifying a database of recipients in csv form, a html template with var placeholders and a subject line.

Requirements

python >= 3.?

Usage

Setup

Edit the config file before running the script:

$ vim config.py

Commandline

The simplest method of sending out a bulk email.

Run a test to predefined test_recipients:

$ ./pymailer --test /path/to/html/file.html /path/to/csv/file.csv 'Email Subject'

Send the actual email to all recipients:

$ ./pymailer --send /path/to/html/file.html /path/to/csv/file.csv 'Email Subject'

Module Import

Alernatively import the PyMailer class into your own code:

from pymailer import PyMailer

pymailer = PyMailer('/path/to/html/file.html' '/path/to/csv/file.csv' 'Email Subject')

# send a test email
pymailer.send_test()

# send bulk mail
pymailer.send()

Examples

HTML

Example of using placeholders in your html email:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html lang="en">

<body>

<h1>Test HTML Email - ${name}</h1> <p>Hi ${name}, This is a test email from Pymailer - <a href="http://github.com:80/qoda/PyMailer/">http://github.com:80/qoda/PyMailer/</a>.</p>

</body>

</html>

Every column of the csv file may be used as a placeholder. Placeolders are for example ${name} or ${title}. The special columns "reciver" and "sender" are created automatically and contain the complete reciver and sender names, including the email address.

CSV

Example of how the csv file should look:

    name,email
Someones Name,someone@example.com
Someone Else,someone.else@example.com
,some.nameless.person@example.com

The csv file should have a header with column names. - One column should be 'name' with the complete name of the reciver. - One column must be 'email' with the email address. - No column should be called 'receiver' or 'sender', as these are internally used.

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