Mail Daemon

Description

Batch mail sending utility with configurable settings.

Arguments

A console application can be launched with various arguments. | Argument | Description | --------- | ------------ | -v | validation mode. | -d | send demo mail to sender. | -p | profile file name. E.g.: -p subscribers.json | -gp | create files on disk with generated mails for each recipient. | -h | help information.

Folders

MailProfiles – folder to store JSON mail profiles.
MailTemplates – folder to store mail templates.

Mail profile

| Value | Description | ------------- | ------------ | sender | address is required value. | subject | is required value. | template | is required value | recipients| address is required value.

mailProfile_Default.json
{
    "sender":
    {
        "address": "<mail address>",
        "name": "<name>"
    },
    "subject": "<subject>",
    "template": "<path to mail template>",
    "attachments": [
        {
            "path": "<path to file>",
            "filename": "<file name>"
        }
    ],
    "recipients": [
        {
            "address": "<mail address>",
            "name": "<name>",
            "subject": "<subject override parent>",
            "company": "<company>"
            "template": "<path to mail template override parent>",
			"replace": {
				"custom-text": "<replace with>",
                "url": "<replace with>"
			},
            "attachments": [
                {
                    "path": "<path to file>",
                    "filename": "<file name>"
                }
            ],
        }
    ],
    "replace":
    {
        "text1": "replace text",
        "text2": "replace text"
    }}

Text placeholders

{PERSON_NAME} – recipient name.
{COMPANY_NAME} – recipient company name.

Validation and demo mode

Run Mail Daemon with attribute -v to validate JSON mail profile: no any mail sending, just validation.
mail-daemon -v

Run Mail Daemon with attributes -v -d to validate JSON mail profile: no any recipient mail sending, just validation and sending demo mail to sender address.
mail-daemon -v -d

Run Mail Daemon with creation of generated mail files.
mail-daemon -gp

Run Mail Daemon with custom mail profile.
mail-daemon -p custom-profile.json