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# NewsBlaster2000
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Sends out newsletters
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## Instructions
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**Run the program with no parameters to generate a config file and to print these instructions**
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1. Create an audience file
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* Name it whatever you want.
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* The file should be a list of email addresses. One email per line.
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2. Create an email file
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* Name it whatever you want.
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* The first line of the file will be used as {{ subject }} in the postmark template.
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* The second line of the file, if not empty, will be used as {{ subtitle }} in the postmark template.
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* After a blank line, the rest of the file will be used as {{{ content_body }}}.
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* Newlines between the subject and body will be removed.
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3. Do a test run
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* go run . test [email filename]
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* You must send the test email before blasting it to everyone.
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* If you modify the email file after testing, you must test again. Otherwise NewsBlaster2000 will complain.
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4. Start blasting
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* go run . blast [audience file] [email file]
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* Will batch send using the Postmark batch API.
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* Will produce a .track file that will list all email addresses that we attempted to send to.
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* In case of error, you can blast again. All emails listed in the .track file will be skipped.
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* Will produce a .log file with information received back from Postmark.
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