Secret Santa Module

This uses the Gmail service in nodemailer.
Sign up for a Gmail address for your Secret Santa Admin.
You must then allow in Gamil settings for Less secure apps & your Google Account

Installation

git clone
npm install

Configure your environment variables

useremail=adminemail@gmail.com
userpassword=qwerty
secretsantaname=Name

Usage

Debug mode by default

By default both scripts confirmemail.js and secretsanta.js scripts have debug: true. Suggest you run it in this mode first. In this mode no emails are sent, only results logged to console.

// Example
santaModule(list, {
    debug: true,
    template: `<div><h2>It's the ${secretsantaname} Secret Santa!</h2><div>You should prepare for <h3>{%=o.to%}</h3></div></div>`,
}).then(console.log);

When you are happy, turn this flag to false.

# Run this first if you want to confirm that the emails are reaching people
npm run confirmemail
# Then run this to send them out
npm run secretsanta

List Example

This program will not allow partners to have each other in the Secret Santa.

Name,e-mail,partner
Brad Pitt,brad.pitt@email.com,angelina.jolie@email.com
Angelina Jolie,angelina.jolie@email.com,brad.pitt@email.com
Justin Beiber,justin.beiber@email.com,hailey.bieber@email.com
Hailey Bieber,hailey.bieber@email.com,justin.beiber@email.com
Jake Gyllenhaal,jake.gyllenhaal@email.com

confirmemail Sent message

It's the XYZ Secret Santa!
Please reply to confirm your email

secretsanta Sent message

It's the XYZ Secret Santa!
You should prepare a present for: Brad Pitt (brad.pitt@email.com)

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