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In the last video we continue working on our mailer class and we've gone through a lot of set up inside

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of your.

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And again I know some of this stuff is painful at this point.

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We have finished defining all these properties.

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We registered the body property with our class by calling on ad content.

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So this ad content was a function that was provided by the male base class right underneath that we

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called ad click tracking.

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That was a helper function that we defined later in the class and then we also just called our recipients

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which is going to be a nother helper function that we're going to define in the class.

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So some of these functions that we're calling in here I know it's just like extra extra confusing because

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ad content is provided by the base class.

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But you and I have defined and implemented these other two.

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So where does this stuff like get implemented by mail but where does it and where does some of it get

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implemented by us.

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Again that's the confusion that's kind of the pain of working with all this e-mail stuff.

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All right well what then mind.

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Enough complaining let's just get through this we're almost done.

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The last thing we have to do is implement this ad recipient's function.

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So this is going to be a function that you and I define to take and process this list of recipients.

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So just to kind of clarify what we're about to do.

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Because this entire step is going to be just a little bit confusing when we called format addresses.

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All we did was turn each recipient into one of these helper e-mail things right here.

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So this start recipients is an array of these helper objects right here.

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That is not the only thing that we have to do.

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However unfortunately we also have to now take this list of recipients we have to take this list of

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help or email objects and we have to actually add them to the mailer as well.

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So again this is another thing that we're doing kind of in two separate steps just like we did with

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the body property up here.

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We're doing some initial formatting and then we've got a helper method right here to then take that

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formatted list and somehow register it with the actual email.

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So let's take care of that right now down at the bottom of the file.

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We're going to add the ADD recipient's helper function this is another great place to like triple check

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your spelling on recipients because very easy to make a typo here.

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So in sign of here we're going to do another little bit of kind of strange strange send good stuff.

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We're going to say cons personal lives equals new helper Daut personalization.

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And obviously I'm going to ask you to triple check your spelling here.

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Very easy to make a typo.

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We're then going to iterate over our list of recipients that we have assigned to this recipients and

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for each recipient will make use of this personalized objects that we've just declared.

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So we're going to say this Daut recipients Daut for each and then for each recipient in their I want

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to personalize Daut add to the recipient and then finally this dot ad personalization we're going to

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pass in the personalized variable that we just declared.

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So essentially what we did here was we defined this personalized variable within iterated over the list

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of recipients that we had defined up here.

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So here's the start recipients.

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And then for each recipient and remember each recipient at this point is not a recipient model.

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It is the helper e-mail thing that we set up right here.

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So for each one of those take them and add them to the personalized object.

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And then after they've all been added to the personalized object call this ad Perle's personalization

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which is that function that is defined by the male base class and add the entire personalized object.

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Yes this stuff is just nasty but fortunately I get great news we're all done thank goodness.

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The stuff has been just disgusting.

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Really you know great it's fantastic because we are very flexible on rules around sending out e-mails.

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Very flexible.

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They are also in general very easy to get started with are also free and don't require a credit card.

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And so they really check a lot of the boxes off for stuff around.

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Doing a tutorial you know like we're in right now or doing a course very easy.

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It started with but the actual code that you have to write is just nasty nasty stuff.

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And honestly even though I'm presenting this to you very truly I kind of have a tough time of imagining

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how you can easily take this and customize it at some point in the future because it is some really

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nasty logic that we've added in here so you know I apologize that that's so nasty but this is kind of

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the reality of it.

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Now of course you're always free to check out many other options out there.

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And look at stuff around you know other providers like MailChimp or something like that and you can

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use one of them instead for your e-mail handling inside of a personal project of your own and in general

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you're going to end up with a similar structure to what we're doing here where you'll centralize all

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the objects or all this logic into a mailer class and then set up all these properties and then eventually

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send out the e-mail.

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But hopefully with another provider you might have some easier less obtuse set up than what you're essentially

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seeing here.

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Anyways I hope that you know this hasn't been too bad.

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So there's one last thing we have to do.

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We're going to in the next section we're going to make sure that we add in a function that we can call

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to take the initialized to Mailer and actually kind of like send it out and kind of send the thing and

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you know issue that e-mail essentially and say to everyone hey here's our e-mail.

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Take the survey or whatever you might want to do.

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So quick break and we'll tackle this in the next section.