NAME

Email::MIME::Kit::Bulk - Email::MIME::Kit-based bulk mailer

VERSION

version 0.0.2

SYNOPSIS

use Email::MIME::Kit::Bulk;
use Email::MIME::Kit::Bulk::Target;

my @targets = (
    Email::MIME::Kit::Bulk::Target->new(
        to => 'someone@somewhere.com',
    ),
    Email::MIME::Kit::Bulk::Target->new(
        to => 'someone.else@somewhere.com',
        cc => 'copied@somewhere.com',
        language => 'en',
    ),
);

my $bulk = Email::MIME::Kit::Bulk->new(
    kit => '/path/to/mime/kit',
    processes => 5,
    targets => \@targets,
);

$bulk->send;

DESCRIPTION

Email::MIME::Kit::Bulk is an extension of Email::MIME::Kit for sending bulk emails. The module can be used directly, or via the companion script emk_bulk.

If a language is specified for a target, Email::MIME::Kit will use manifest.language.json to generate its associated email. If no language is given, the regular manifest.json will be used instead.

If emk_bulk is used, it'll look in the kit directory for a targets.json file, which it'll use to create the email targets. The format of the targets.json file is a simple serialization of the Email::MIME::Kit::Bulk::Target constructor arguments:

[
{
    "to" : "someone@somewhere.com"
    "cc" : [
        "someone+cc@somewhere.com"
    ],
    "language" : "en",
    "template_params" : {
        "superlative" : "Fantastic"
    },
},
{
    "to" : "someone+french@somewhere.com"
    "cc" : [
        "someone+frenchcc@somewhere.com"
    ],
    "language" : "fr",
    "template_params" : {
        "superlative" : "Extraordinaire"
    },
}
]

Email::MIME::Kit::Bulk uses MCE to parallize the sending of the emails. The number of processes used can be set via the processes constructor argument. By default MCE will select the number of processes based on the number of available processors. If the number of processes is set to be 1, MCE is bypassed altogether.

METHODS

new( %args )

Constructor.

Arguments

targets => \@targets

Takes in an array of Email::MIME::Kit::Bulk::Target objects, which are the email would-be recipients.

Either the argument targets or to must be passed to the constructor.

to => $email_address

Email address of the 'To:' recipient. Ignored if targets is given as well.

cc => $email_address

Email address of the 'Cc:' recipient. Ignored if targets is given as well.

bcc => $email_address

Email address of the 'Bcc:' recipient. Ignored if targets is given as well.

kit => $path

Path of the directory holding the files used by Email::MIME::Kit. Can be a string or a Path::Tiny object.

from => $email_address

'From' address for the email .

processes => $nbr

Maximal number of parallel processes used to send the emails.

If not specified, will be chosen by MCE. If set to 1, the parallel processing will be skipped altogether.

Not specified by default.

send()

Send the emails.

AUTHORS

• Jesse Luehrs <doy@cpan.org>

• Yanick Champoux <yanick.champoux@iinteractive.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2015 by Infinity Interactive <contact@iinteractive.com>.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.