Hi,
I want to automate the creation of our newsletters as much as possible. Right now it's very manual and time-consuming.
Our emails contain many sections, with different headers, and tables at the end. Typically, we take the previous edition of the email, make updates manually, then send it out.
What I want to do is write the content in an external tool, most likely using Markdown, and automate the creation of the draft version of the email.
My questions are:
- Does the API support this? I think it does if I understand the documentation correctly.
- Assuming my understanding is that it can:
- When I create an email, do I need to create the entire HTML portion directly? Or can it be done in multiple blocks/segments?
- What's the best way to start off with content that will look like what we currently have? i.e. is it possible to creeate an initial version of the HTML by ways other than cut'n'paste followed by trial an derror?
- If I realize that there needs to be a modification in the email that was created, can I use my automated process to overwrite/modify the initial one that was created? Or should I delete the first one and create a new one from scratch?
- Can I create a separate testing account to do the test portion so I don't "pollute" the production account with tests that will fail?
BTW, I'm planning on using Make to do this.
Thank you,
L
