Mass email sending/email lists, cc Indrel

[bri25yu]

Context

HKN’s Industrial Relations (Indrel) committee currently manually emails companies every semester asking if they would like to hold an info-session/tech talk. They email upwards of 100+ companies every cycle, and we would like to automate this process.

Goal

Using various Google APIs, automate the sending of Indrel emails given a CSV of company information and an email template supplied by indrel officers. In addition, Indrel has a candidate (Preston Niayesh) that is working on a different part of the same effort; they’re writing the email templates that will be used by our mailing script. After the emails are sent, forward the sent email to an input Indrel email, along with the emails that the email was sent to (just so they can make sure that everything went smoothly).

Reference

While we don’t have anything analogous to mass mailing using email templates on the new website, we do have similar emailing functionality on the old website here. Here’s the documentation for what we use on the old website link. Django has an analogous mailer.
To see where this all fits in with the progress of the new Industrial Relations portion of the new website, see https://github.com/compserv/hknweb/projects/3#card-33383415.
To see your official hknweb issue: https://github.com/compserv/hknweb/issues/195