Enable Bulk Email and Set 'Bulk Email' from address

These instructions will allow you to Enable Bulk Email and Set 'Bulk Email' from address.

1. Set the following flags in lms.yml and studio.yml.

Use the following command to access the yml files from the terminal:

sudo nano /edx/etc/lms.yml
sudo nano /edx/etc/studio.yml

Set the following flags

BULK_EMAIL_DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL: "EMAIL ADDRESS TO SEND BULK EMAILS FROM"

FEATURES: 
ENABLE_INSTRUCTOR_EMAIL: True

1. Log into [platform url]/admin. This is the Django Admin panel.

2. From Bulk_Email, click Bulk email flags.

3. Add a Flag by clicking button.

4. Select the Enabled check box. And unselect the REQUIRE COURSE EMAIL AUTH check box(unless you want course-specific sending privileges).

Changes to bulk email so that course emails come from a generic name and not a course-specific one.

Update the lms/djangoapps/bulk_email/tasks.py file.

Find the following in the file:

from_email=configuration_helpers.get_value(
  'email_from_address',
  settings.BULK_EMAIL_DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL
)

Change it to the following:

from_email=settings.BULK_EMAIL_DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL

Restart the edx service by issuing the following command:

sudo /edx/bin/supervisorctl restart all

Changes uptil now would start sending bulk emails with default template.

1. To update email template follow the steps

   1. Log into [platform url]/admin. This is the Django Admin panel.

   2. From Bulk_Email, click Course email templates.

   3. Add course email template by clicking button.

   4. A sample HTML template is provided below. Update the sample info with your details where ever required.

   5. A sample Plain template is provided below. Update the sample info with your details where ever required.

   6. Name the template.

   

   1. From SITES, click Sites.

   If site is not already created then create a site and set domain name and display name of the server.

   1. From SITE_CONFIGURATION, click Site configurations.

   2. Add site configuration if already not available.

       . Select the site, 
       . check the Enabled checkbox,
       . Modify site values
       . Set "course_email_template_name":"TEMPLATE NAME"
       . Set "course_email_from_addr":"EMAIL ADDRESS"