GDPR approaches and we were forced to ask everyone on our list to reconfirm their email. SendGrid recommend doing this on a regular basis anyway.
There were no fast ways to do so using the standard tools so we built this.
It will add an email to a new list and remove from the old one - you can later on delete the first list.
- Create a new SendGrid list - your new clean one
- Clone this repo
- Get your new and existing list IDs
- Deploy it to Heroku (easiest)
Create a new list by adding a new contact manually. Ensure you checked 'Add contacts and include in a new list'.
Get the listID - it's in the URL.
Create another list that includes all your contacts. Get the listID - it's also in the URL.
Get your API token - the docs for this can be found here
Create a Heroku account if you haven't, then grab the source using git:
$ git clone git://github.com/mimolabs/sendgrid-reconfirm.git
From the project directory, create a Heroku application:
$ heroku create
Add Heroku's redis addon:
$ heroku addons:add heroku-redis
Set your environment variables, where NEW_LIST is your new clean list and OLD_LIST is the one you need to remove emails from.
$ heroku config:set SENDGRID_TOKEN=SG...... OLD_LIST=xxx NEW_LIST=xxx
Now just deploy via git:
$ git push heroku master
It will push to Heroku and give you a URL you can use in your campaigns.
Just add the following link to your next campaign!
https://xxx.heroku.com?email=[%email%]
Make sure you update with your own heroku URL.
On the server/machine you want to host this, you'll first need a machine with docker and docker-compose installed, then grab the RequestBin source using git:
$ git clone git://github.com/mimolabs/sendgrid-reconfirm.git
Go into the project directory and then build and start the containers
$ sudo docker-compose build
$ sudo docker-compose up -d
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