README.md

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This repository contains both digest as well as scripts for sending emails to community members. SendGrid takes care of unsubscribed users automatically.

In order to send email, you have to perform three magic steps:

1. Build HTML from Markdown

groovy <parameters>  markdown2html.groovy > body.html

Required parameters

-Dtemplate - relative path to markdown template

2. Collect and store recipients in a file

groovy <parameters> collect_recipients.groovy > recipients.txt

Required parameters

-Deventbrite.userKey - User Key for accessing Eventbrite

-Deventbrite.appKey - App Key for accessing Eventbrite

Optional parameters

-Dskip.event - if specified, does not collect members of the given event

3. (Optional) Create monthly event iCalendar

groovy <parameters> calendar.groovy

Required parameters

-Dout - iCalendar output file name

-Dname - Event name

-Dlocation - Event location

-Ddescription - Event description

-DdateTime - DateTime in d/M/yyyy H:m format

Examples

groovy -Dout=latcraftonair.ics \
  -Dname="Latcraft On Air" \
  -Dlocation="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvzMZyJZZ3XYQwbvOACVYrQ" \
  -Ddescription="Talk with Java gods" \
  -DdateTime='17/05/2015 10:00' \
  calendar.groovy

groovy -Dout=pub.ics \
  -Dname="Pub" \
  -Dlocation="Beļgu alus" \
  -Ddescription="Pub meet" \
  -DdateTime='17/05/2015 10:00' \
  calendar.groovy                                  

4. Send email to recipients

groovy <parameters> sender.groovy < recipients.txt

Required parameters

-Dsendgrid.user - SendGrid username

-Dsendgrid.password - SendGrid password

-Demail.body - relative path to email body (normally body.html)

-Demail.from - sender email (normally [email protected])

-Demail.subject - email subject

Optional parameters

-Dcalendar - iCalendar (*.ics) file to be sent out as event invitation.

Misc

Access credentials can be obtained here.