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PyMailer

Simple python bulk mailer script. Raw python using std libs.

Send bulk html emails from the commandline or in your python script by specifying a database of recipients in csv form, a html template with var placeholders and a subject line.

Requirements

  • python >= 2.4

Usage

Setup

Edit the config file before running the script:

$ vim config.py

Commandline

The simplest method of sending out a bulk email.

Run a test to predefined test_recipients:

$ ./pymailer -t /path/to/html/file.html /path/to/csv/file.csv 'Email Subject'

Send the actual email to all recipients:

$ ./pymailer -s /path/to/html/file.html /path/to/csv/file.csv 'Email Subject'

Module Import

Alernatively import the PyMailer class into your own code:

from pymailer import PyMailer

pymailer = PyMailer('/path/to/html/file.html', '/path/to/csv/file.csv', 'Email Subject')

# send a test email
pymailer.send_test()

# send bulk mail
pymailer.send()

Examples

HTML

Example of using placeholders in your html email:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html lang="en">
    <body>
        <h1>Test HTML Email - <!--name--></h1>
        <p>Hi <!--name-->, This is a test email from Pymailer - <a href="http://github.com:80/qoda/PyMailer/">http://github.com:80/qoda/PyMailer/</a>.</p>
    </body>
</html>

CSV

Example of how the csv file should look:

Someones Name,someone@example.com
Someone Else,someone.else@example.com
,some.nameless.person@example.com

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