Bulk Mailer is a Mail Client web application that can be used by organizations to send bulk emails for different groups of subscribers. In general, a bulk email service is a company that allows its customers to send mass email messages to multiple lists of recipients at a specified time. With this service, you can send a single message to thousands of people on a mailing list or a personalized email to each address on a list that can be of any size. Today, marketers prefer to use bulk email services to deliver important messages with minimal effort. Unlike junk emails sent without the recipientsβ permission, bulk emails are legal marketing campaigns since the recipients subscribe to receive them. However, if bulk email marketing is not properly managed, users may consider it spam, and consequently, it may hurt the senderβs reputation.
Most of the bulk email service providers price their offerings based on the number and frequency of the emails one wants to send. But, after registering with Bulk Mailer, you can send bulk emails free of charge!
Our application has a feature-rich email builder that lets you build beautiful and responsive emails in minutes. It supports adding and using different email templates as well which ensures consistency and reduced human efforts.
Bulk mailing is an incredibly useful tool for any business as it aims to promote a business or sell goods or even develop relationships. Sending thousands or tens of thousands of messages to even just a couple of email addresses would be draining due to the amount of time and effort required. Moreover, the cost of running such a campaign would not be sustainable for any business. Using a bulk email service is cheaper, faster, and much more convenient.
This service is a prime example of how you can utilize technology to enhance traditional marketing methods. Time-saving is, of course, one of the big advantages of bulk mailing, but there are plenty of other benefits too like the ability to spark engagement. More businesses are now seeing the benefits of combining direct mail campaigns with digital marketing methods.
Feel free to use it as-is or customize it as much as you want.
But if you want to Contribute and make this much better for other developers have a look at Issues.
If you created something awesome and want to contribute then feel free to open Please don't hesitate to open an Pull Request.
1. Clone this repository to your local environment
$ git clone https://github.com/vigneshshettyin/Bulk-Mailer.git
2. Change directory into the cloned repository
$ cd Bulk-Mailer
3. Setup virtual environment
$ py -m venv env
For Windows:-
$ .\env\bin\activate
For Linux:-
$ source env/bin/activate
4. Install requirements from requirements.txt
$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt
5. Create a new file called .env
and copy all the data from .env.sample
to .env
as it is.
6. Run the development server
$ python3 app.py
or
$ flask run
7.Now fire up your favorite web browser and go to http://127.0.0.1:5000/ You will find the application running there.
Note: If your project root directory doesn't contain bulkmailer.db
then Run this on your terminal: π
For Windows: πΎ
- To initialize a new database
python manage.py db init
- To migrate changes in the database
python manage.py db migrate
- To update the database with the new migrations
python manage.py db upgrade
- To degrade the database
python manage.py db downgrade
For Linux: π¨βπ»
- To initialize a new database
python3 manage.py db init
- To migrate changes in the database
python3 manage.py db migrate
- To update the database with the new migrations
python3 manage.py db upgrade
- To degrade the database
python3 manage.py db downgrade
For Checking Linting errors:-
pylint --load-plugins pylint_flask [module_name]
Note: Users need to run the upgrade command only during the project setup since the initial migrations have already been done. It just needs to be applied using the python manage.py db upgrade
command.
Detailed Step by Step Video
- **Run QA checks on local environment β‘** :
- Run Shell script on Windows πΎ :
...\Bulk-Mailer> .\bulkmailer_QA_Checks
- Run Shell script on Linux π¨βπ» :
.../Bulk-Mailer$ ./bulkmailer_QA_Checks
- Alternate option β :
- Run this on terminal β‘:
- Windows πΎ
...\Bulk-Mailer> black .
...\Bulk-Mailer> flake8 .
- Linux π¨βπ»
.../Bulk-Mailer$ black .
.../Bulk-Mailer$ flake8 .
- Windows πΎ
- Run this on terminal β‘:
Deploy it live on the web!
When you are done with the setup, you should host your website online.
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This project is licensed under the GPL-3.0 License. See the LICENSE file for details
If you can help us with these. Please don't hesitate to open a Pull Request.