Bulk Email
Course staff can now compose emails and send them to course staff. The key features are:
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Ability to compose HTML messages in the site.
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MIME multipart mails are sent
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Ability to efficiently to send to very large classes by fanning out jobs to worker machines over a job queue (celery).
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Mails are CAN-SPAM compliant: messages automatically have an optout link in the footer.
Credit goes to Jason Bau for developing the feature in Class2Go. Students Kevin Lau and Akshay Jaggadish took that code and ported to OpenEdX over Summer 2013.
We use Amazon SES to send our mails. We have SES configured to sign messages on our behalf using DKIM to reduce the likelihood that they will be treated by spam by the receiver. Not the signature in the following screenshot.
