Publicity Bot

While the management of special issues, workshop and conferences becomes more complex, automatic tools come to the rescue. This project includes a simple command line program to send email via Google. Suggestions and bug reports are always welcome. If you have any question, request or suggestion, please open a new ticket in the Issues with appropriate label.

How to build it

Download latest release here and make up the virtual environment.

virtualenv -p python3 venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

How to use it

The application strongly requires a list of recipients, the email subject and the body. The list of carbon copy recipients is instead optional. These parameters must be stored within independent files as follow.

Example of emails to


Example of emails body

Run then the application as follow.

python main.py \
    --host smtp.gmail.com \
    --port 465 \
    --from user@example.com \
    --to <PATH/OF/TO-FILE> \
    --cc <PATH/OF/CC-FILE> \
    --subject <PATH/OF/SUBJECT-FILE> \
    --body <PATH/OF/BODY-FILE>