Jekyll::Email

Jekyll email plugin. Send emails with simple command.

Installation

Add this line to your jekyll application's Gemfile:

group :jekyll_plugins do
  gem 'jekyll-email', git: 'https://github.com/kisakov/jekyll-email.git'
end

And then execute:

$ bundle

Create .env file in root of your jekyll's project

GMAIL_LOGIN=YOUR_GMAIL_LOGIN
GMAIL_PASSWORD=YOUR_GMAIL_PASSWORD
RECIPIENTS="[email protected],[email protected]"

You can read about gmail authentication there

Also exclude .env file from your git repository in .gitignore

And finaly add these to your _config.yml

domain: "http://your_domain.com"
mail_subject: "New post"
mail_intro: "Hello"
mail_read_more: "read next..."
mail_closing: "Good Bye"

Usage

$ jekyll mail # send last post
$ jekyll mail 2013-08-01-post # send post with name 2013-08-01-post
$ jekyll mail -preview # Open email for preview without sending
$ jekyll mail --recipients "[email protected], [email protected]" # Send an email only to specific recipients

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake false to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/[USERNAME]/jekyll-email.

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