A simple tool for launching your email campaigns.
To use the tool you will need the following:
- AutoIT
- Your email server configuration
- A csv file (semicolon delimited)
- An html template
AutoIT can be downloaded from here. You will need it to compile the Campaigner.au3 to a windows executable.
You will need the following information from your email provider:
- The email server hostname or ip address
- The email server port
- If SSL is supported from your email provider
- Your email account username
- Your email account password
All the above can be entered in the campaigner.ini file in MailServer section:
[MailServer]
MailServer=your.smtp.com
MailPort=465
MailSSL=1
[email protected]
AccountPassword=y0uRp@$$w0rd
Each row of the csv file corresponds to one email. Two columns are mandatory:
- ToAddress (this column must contain the email address of each recipient)
- Subject (this column must contain the subject of the email)
All the other columns can contain any dynamic information you want to add in the body of the sent email. All column titles must be unique! This is an example of a very basic csv file contents:
ToAddress;Subject;Col1;Col2
[email protected];Test Email 1;John;Doe
[email protected];Test Email 3;George;Roubis
The html template is the body of your email. To add dynamic data on it, simply add the column titles you previously declared in your csv file like that:
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">
Hello <span style="font-weight:bold;color:#F76F76">[{Col1}] [{Col2}]</span><br />
</div>
</body>
</html>
the output of the above will be:
Hello John Doe
- Run the application
- Fill in your email configuration
- Fill in any required or additional content configuration
- Select your data file (csv file)
- Select your template file (html file)
- Click check
- Click Launch to launch your campaign, or Unlock to review your settings
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