sparrc / secretsanta

Generate a secret santa matching and email the participants 🎅 🎁

Secret Santa 🎅

Generate a secret santa matchup and email the participants!

Instructions

1. Setup SES and remove the sandbox on your AWS account: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/request-production-access.html.
2. You must setup a sender domain/email that you can use via AWS SES.
3. Setup AWS credential access.
4. Create a config file (recommended that you try with some test email addresses first):

# first element of the list is the email address of the person.
# second element of the list is the person's "couple" if they have one, this ensures
#   that couples are not matched together.
cat >./config.json <<EOF
{
    "Peppa Pig":  ["[e-mail]", ""],
    "George":     ["[e-mail]", ""],
    "Daddy Pig":  ["[e-mail]", "Mummy Pig"],
    "Mummy Pig":  ["[e-mail]", "Daddy Pig"],
    "Suzy Sheep": ["[e-mail]", ""]
}
EOF

5. Run a dryrun of the program (no emails sent or SES client created):

go run main.go -file config.json -from [e-mail] -dryrun

6. Run the program (🚨 emails will be sent! 🚨):

go run main.go -file config.json -from [e-mail]