/secret-santa

Send Secret Santa assignments by email

Primary LanguageTypeScript

A simple tool to email people their Secret Santa assignments.

Usage

  • Configure the AWS SDK. Ensure that your default profile has permissions to verify email addresses and send emails with SES. The default region is "eu-west-1"; export a different AWS_REGION value if you want to use a different region.
  • Fill out participants.json with the name and email address of each participant. Your own email should go first, as this will be used as the sender email, and will need to be verified with SES.
  • To email participants with the name of the person they're buying for, run npm install && npm run main.

Warning

AWS rejected my request to send email to non-verified email addresses for this purpose. You can either get everyone involved to verify their email (kind of a pain), or just give up and use some other service to do this like I did. Thanks, AWS!