CompClubEmailBlast

CompClubEmailBlast is designed to automate the process of sending e-mail blast for NUS Computing Club. It uses the e-mail blast template for the Club.

There is no error checking, the inputs are assumed to be correct.

Assumptions

The programme takes many assumptions. Some of them are:

1. The inputs are well formed as expected by the programme, there is no error checking done by the programme
2. For every e-mail item, there's at least a title; the image, text, and link are optional
3. The information on the no. of items, titles, and links must be available in main.txt in the folder that contains all the contents. Each item is listed in main.txt chronologically. A title is needed for each item while the link&link-text pair is optional
4. Text files are named as txti.html where i is a number greater than 1
5. Image files are named as imgi.html where i is a number greater than 1

Email Template

The e-mail template can be viewed as consisting of the following:

1. Header
2. Content Item(s), each with:
   • Title
   • Image(optional)
   • Text(optional)
   • Link(optional)
3. Footer

Dependencies

These dependencies are included in the programme

• JavaMail API (https://java.net/projects/javamail/pages/Home)

Sample Instructions

These steps will demonstrate the basic functionality of the programme using the sample files

1. update samplePrivateInfo.txt file with the required information
2. Run CCmailer using the 4 arguments: samplePrivateInfo.txt sample/ sample/ sampleTest.html usign Eclipse IDE OR place the relevant files(samplePrivateInfo.txt and the sample/ folder) together, compile the required files and run CCmailer with the 4 arguments:
   • For example, java CCmailer samplePrivateInfo.txt sample/ sample/ sampleTest.html
3. Check that you receive the sample e-mail
4. The ouput html, sampleTest.html, is in the sample/ folder