openmailer 0.1.1

Open-source email automation and delivery engine

📬 OpenMailer

OpenMailer is a free, open-source Python email delivery framework.

Send transactional or bulk email with your own SMTP server — Gmail, Outlook, AWS SES, Postfix, or any custom SMTP. No need for SendGrid, Mailgun, or other paid services.

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🚀 Why OpenMailer?

Problem	How OpenMailer Solves It
💰 Expensive APIs	Uses your own SMTP — no vendor fees
🔒 Vendor lock-in	100% self-hosted, open-source, and extensible
🤯 Complex APIs	Developer-first design with both CLI & Python SDK
🔍 No visibility	Transparent retry queue, terminal UI, logging, reports

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🔧 Key Features

• ✅ HTML email templating ({{name}}, {{link}}, etc.)
• ✅ Multi-backend SMTP routing & failover
• ✅ Attachments (PDFs, ZIPs, images)
• ✅ Scheduled send (--schedule)
• ✅ Retry queue with live retry command (--retry)
• ✅ Priority queuing (--priority)
• ✅ Open tracking with tracking pixel
• ✅ Rate limiting & throttling
• ✅ Local testing (--dry-run → saves to ./outbox)
• ✅ CLI (opmctl) and Python SDK
• ✅ Bulk sending with real-time terminal table
• ✅ Feedback reports for bulk send
• ✅ Health check & analytics module
• ✅ Plugin-ready architecture

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🧱 Project Structure

openmailer/
├── client.py              # Core email client logic
├── smtp_engine.py         # Low-level SMTP sending
├── template_engine.py     # Jinja2-based rendering
├── queue_manager.py       # Handles retries & delays
├── rate_limiter.py        # Enforces send rate control
├── logger.py              # Log storage (JSON + terminal)
├── secrets.py             # Secure credential loading
├── localmode.py           # --dry-run support
├── analytics.py           # Tracks send metrics
├── config.py              # Default + override configs
├── health_monitor.py      # SMTP health & uptime logic

cli/
└── main.py                # CLI entrypoint (`opmcli`)

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📦 Installation

git clone https://github.com/Devops-Bot-Official/OpenMailer.git
cd openmailer
python setup.py install

Then:

chmod +x cli/main.py
ln -s $(pwd)/cli/main.py /usr/local/bin/opmctl

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🖥️ OpenMailer CLI

OpenMailer CLI (opmcli) is a full-featured command-line interface for managing email delivery using the OpenMailer engine.

⚙️ Single Send

opmctl --to [e-mail] \
       --subject "Hello {{name}}" \
       --template templates/welcome.html \
       --context '{"name": "Alice"}' \
       --attachment invoice.pdf \
       --schedule "2025-07-01 09:00" \
       --priority high \
       --track-open \
       --report

📬 Bulk Email (via CSV)

opmctl bulk --csv contacts.csv --template templates/newsletter.html --report

CSV Format:

email,subject,name,link
[e-mail],Welcome,Alice,https://example.com/welcome
[e-mail],News,Bob,https://example.com/update

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🧪 Testing Mode

opmctl --to [e-mail] --template templates/test.html --dry-run

Saves the output to ./outbox/ instead of sending real email.

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🪄 CLI Options

Flag	Description
--to	Email recipient address
--subject	Subject line of the email
--template	HTML file to use as email body
--context	JSON dict injected into the template ({{name}})
--attachment	One or more attachments (PDF, ZIP, etc.)
--schedule	Future datetime for scheduled send (UTC/local)
--priority	Email priority: high, normal, low
--track-open	Add tracking pixel to monitor opens
--dry-run	Save email as file without actually sending
--report	Sends delivery report to sender
--retry	Retry all failed or queued emails
bulk	Use for bulk email campaign via CSV

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📊 Real-Time Table (Bulk Send)

During bulk send, the CLI displays a live table with email progress:

📬 Bulk Email Progress
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ Recipient         ┃ Subject       ┃ Status   ┃ Error                ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ [e-mail] │ Welcome       │ ✅ Sent   │                      │
│ [e-mail]   │ Update        │ ❌ Failed │ SMTP connect timeout │
└───────────────────┴───────────────┴──────────┴──────────────────────┘

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🧑‍💻 Python SDK (Library Usage)

from openmailer import OpenMailerClient

client = OpenMailerClient()

client.send_email(
    to="[e-mail]",
    subject="Hello {{name}}",
    html_body="<h1>Hello {{name}}</h1>",
    context={"name": "Bob"},
    attachments=["contract.pdf"]
)

Bulk Programmatic Send

report = client.send_bulk(
    recipients=["[e-mail]", "[e-mail]"],
    subject="Notice",
    html_body="<p>Hi {{name}}</p>",
    context_fn=lambda to: {"name": to.split("@")[0]}
)
client.feedback_to_sender("[e-mail]", report)

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🧪 Retry

Failed deliveries are automatically stored in the retry queue.

To resend:

opmctl --retry

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🧠 Developer Notes

• Retry queue is file-based, future versions will support Redis or DB
• Open tracking uses an invisible pixel hit
• Supports Gmail, Outlook, AWS SES, and more (with auth configs)
• Feedback system reports how many sent/failed, per recipient
• CLI uses rich for real-time terminal rendering
• Designed to plug into CI/CD or automation pipelines

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💡 Use Cases

• Transactional messages (signup, password reset)
• System alerts and DevOps monitoring
• Custom marketing newsletters
• Embedded email engine in SaaS products
• Developer testing in local/airgapped environments

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🛣 Roadmap

• ✅ Full SMTP support
• ✅ Retry and feedback system
• ✅ Bulk send and tracking
• ✅ Live table output for progress
• 🔜 REST API server mode
• 🔜 OAuth2 SMTP (Google, Outlook)
• 🔜 Admin dashboard UI
• 🔜 Docker image with SMTP + UI
• 🔜 Plugin SDK for custom auth/rules

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🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions from Pythonistas and email nerds.

git clone https://github.com/Devops-Bot-Official/OpenMailer.git
cd openmailer
python setup.py install

Contributor Guidelines

• Engine logic goes in openmailer/
• CLI logic lives in cli/
• Avoid hardcoding — use config/environment
• Document new features in README
• PRs should pass basic tests and lint

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📜 License

MIT License — use it freely in personal and commercial projects.

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❤️ About

OpenMailer is built by and for developers who believe in freedom, transparency, and open infrastructure. No API limits. No billing traps. Just email that works.

Made with 🐍 Python. Powered by SMTP.