Sending email and generating certificates

Local environment setup

1. Create and activate the virtual environment, e.g.

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

2. Install the dependencies

python3 -m pip install -U pip
python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt

Email address list

Create the email address as a csv file. See example in 2023_participants_test.csv.

Generating certificates

1. Run the gen_certificates.py script. You may need to adjust the file/filename containing the csv before running the script.

Sending email

1. First ensure the certificates have been generated.
2. Get GMail OAuth credentials: https://developers.google.com/workspace/guides/configure-oauth-consent
3. Download the credentials.json file and add to the same directory where email_sender.py is located.
4. Run the script against a test email first, and verify the content, before sending a mass email.