https://github.com/tombuildsstuff/mailer
Mailer is a suite of tools used to send automated personalised messages to your contacts
https://github.com/tombuildsstuff/mailer
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Mailer is a suite of tools used to send automated personalised messages to your contacts
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/tombuildsstuff/mailer
- Owner: tombuildsstuff
- Created: 2011-12-24T10:05:33.000Z (over 14 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2011-12-27T15:16:22.000Z (over 14 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-06-08T01:04:35.193Z (about 1 year ago)
- Language: C#
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- Size: 8.99 MB
- Stars: 3
- Watchers: 3
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 2
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- Readme: Readme.md
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README
The Mailer Suite
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By Tom Harvey - [@tombuildsstuff](http://twitter.com/tombuildsstuff) - [ibuildstuff.co.uk](http://ibuildstuff.co.uk)
The Mailer Suite is a set of applications used to send personalised messages to your contacts.
Connecting into your Google Contacts account, it's possible to send a personalised birthday/happy new years message to your contacts.
Texts are currently sent using Clickatell ([pricing available here](http://www.clickatell.com/pricing/message_cost.php)) - but this can easily be swapped out to use other providers.
How To Use
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Mailer can automatically send messages using the details available in your Google Contacts account.
You'll need to make a little change to each contact, so that we can determine the Gender.
What you need to do is create a new "Website" field, with the Key "Gender", and then set 'Male' or 'Female' (or simply M/F) as needed.
Unfortunately the Google-provided library didn't return these Custom Fields in my testing (or I'd have made use of them) - if you've got solution there's an issue for it (above).
Set Up
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* Open up the [AppName].config in a text editor
* Set your Google Credentials in the 'GoogleUsername' and 'GooglePassword' fields
* Set your Message in the 'MaleTextMessage' and 'FemaleTextMessage' fields
* Set the Groups that you want to send too in the 'GroupsToMessage' field
* Set your [Clickatell](http://www.clickatell.com) Credentials in the fields prefixed-'ClickATell'
Custom Sender Name
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When using ClickATell as a provider, you need to request your "Sender/From" name (this is to prevent abuse).
Once you've logged in - you can manage your Custom Senders here: https://www.clickatell.com/central/central/dashboard/senderid_dashboard.php
Once approved by ClickATell (normally within 24 hours) - you can make use it.
Your mobile number should automatically be available once you sign up; so you should only need to do this if you'd like a custom sender name i.e. 'Miss Piggy'
To Do
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See here: [Issues](http://github.com/tombuildsstuff/Mailer/issues)
License
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See here: [http://tombuildsstuff.mit-license.org/](http://tombuildsstuff.mit-license.org/)