Send Email

This program fills in a jinja2 template and constructs an email message. You can select the group of people you want to send the email to. The organiser always gets a copy. The email is sent when a mail server is specified. Otherwise it is simply printed on screen.

All variables defined in the Course Configuration file are passed to the template. The session number is passed by the variable snr.

The list of participants is passed to the template if it contains a varaible users. The list of users contains objects of type gitlab_course.GLCUser.

Usage

usage: glc_send_email [-h] -t TEMPLATE [-a ATTACH] [-s SESSION]
                      [-g {participants,waiting,instructors,helpers}]
                      [-m MAIL] [-f FROM_EMAIL] [-S SUBJECT] [-e MAIL_SERVER]
                      course

Positional Arguments

course: the course description file

Named Arguments

-t, --template

the template to apply

-a, --attach

attach a file

Default: []

-s, --session

the session number

Default: 1

-g, --mail-group

Possible choices: participants, waiting, instructors, helpers

select the group of email recipiants

Default: []

-m, --mail

individual email addresses

Default: []

-f, --from-email

the email address of the sender, use the organiser email address if not specified

-S, --subject

the email subject

-e, --mail-server

the SMTP server to be used