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[Deryck Hodge <deryck.hodge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Aaron Bentley <aaron@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> At the every least, we should convert what I have into a generic class
>> that can take some precautions for us -- checking that we're not
>> sending multiple emails to the same address, etc.
>
> Perhaps you could have used lp.services.mail.basemailer.BaseMailer?

Yes, perhaps I could have.  Unfortunately, I thought of it as being
tied to subscriptions or notifications for individual actions.
Looking more closely and with a new eye, I see it might have worked
well.

Had I started my script by sub-classing BaseMailer, I think that (like
the massmail script Francis mentioned) I would have thought more about
recipients than projects and perhaps some of this pain would have been
avoided.

>
>> Best case, we would
>> have a web-based tool that would allow us to select users based on
>> criteria and supply an email template.
>
> It seems tricky, considering you wanted to name the specific projects.
>

Yes, it is tricky, which is why I'm not sure these types of tools I've
seen before would work for us.  Mostly these are used for marketing,
not notifications.  However, I do think there's some value in not
requiring developers to write a new script each time if it was
possible to make a web UI to a generic script.

Maybe this is too much for our purposes and a simple MassMail script
which subclasses BaseMailer that others can then extend is enough.  Or
the MassMail script could be a template for how to use BaseMailer, the
way we have the template test file.

Cheers,
deryck


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