# thistleandmoth-campaigns

thistleandmoth.org's campaign content, synced to listmonk by [`eec-campaigns`](https://gitea.reground.org/will/eec-campaigns). This repo holds only campaign content and this domain's listmonk secrets — the tool itself is installed at a pinned version in CI.

## To send a campaign

1. Write `campaigns/<slug>/campaign.md` (frontmatter + Markdown body — see the [eec-campaigns README](https://gitea.reground.org/will/eec-campaigns#campaignmd) for the full field reference). Set `from_email: "Thistle & Moth <hello@thistleandmoth.org>"` explicitly — there's no default, and sync rejects a campaign with no `from_email` at all.
2. `git push` to `master` — CI syncs it into listmonk as a **draft** and emails a preview to `CAMPAIGNS_PREVIEW_EMAIL` (or the campaign's own `preview_emails`).
3. Check the preview inbox. Keep pushing edits until it looks right — each push re-syncs and re-previews.
4. When ready to actually send: `git tag send/<slug> && git push origin send/<slug>`. This is the one action that transitions the campaign from draft to running — a plain `git push` to master can never do it.

Alternatively, run the `Send campaign` workflow manually from Gitea Actions with the slug as input — same effect as the tag push.

## Other workflows

- **`Test-send campaign`** (manual) — re-preview a campaign's current content to any address, without touching its status.
- **`Sync default campaign template`** (manual) — pushes `email-templates/campaign.html` into listmonk as the default campaign template. Run once after setup, and again whenever that file changes.

## Setup

Repo secrets (Gitea Actions → Secrets) are already set: `CAMPAIGNS_LISTMONK_BASE_URL`, `CAMPAIGNS_LISTMONK_API_USER`, `CAMPAIGNS_LISTMONK_API_TOKEN` — scoped to a dedicated `campaigns-thistleandmoth` listmonk API user (see `reground-infrastructure`'s `campaigns-thistleandmoth` Ansible role). `CAMPAIGNS_PREVIEW_EMAIL` isn't set yet — add it (or rely on each campaign's own `preview_emails`) before the first real send.

The workflows in `.gitea/workflows/` pin a specific `eec-campaigns` version (currently `v0.1.7`). Bump that pin deliberately when a new tool version is ready, not automatically.

## Sending as hello@thistleandmoth.org

Listmonk sends everything — every domain's campaigns — authenticated as one shared identity, `hello@reground.org`. For a campaign here to actually go out `From: hello@thistleandmoth.org` instead of bouncing as a spoofing attempt, Mailcow's Sender ACL on `hello@reground.org` has to explicitly allow it — this is set automatically by `reground-infrastructure`'s `mailcow` role (it derives the full Sender ACL from `mailcow_mailboxes`, so any co-hosted client's `hello@` mailbox is covered without a manual step).