[NTLUG:Discuss] Mail merge?

[Wayne Walker]

assuming the message is the same for everyone:

mutt youraddress at foo.com < message_file.txt

Once you have read the email yourself, send it to a yahoo, aol, and
gmail address.  See if they kick it out as spam.  See if it renders
properly in all three of their GUIs.

then finally:

screen

for i in `cat addr.file`
do
	mutt $i < message_file.txt
	sleep 60
done


running inside screen means that even if your connection to the server
goes away, you can reconnect and the emails are still going out (screen
-x  to reconnect).

Wayne


On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 03:35:10PM -0500, Lance Simmons wrote:
> Thanks for everyone's advice on how to pare down a large list of email
> addresses.  Now I have a nice, neat list.
> 
> Now I need to figure out how to send the same email to each of these
> addresses.  I've used mutt for a long time (though I've switched
> mostly to gmail recently), but can't seem to find how to do it in
> mutt.  Surely this is a common task: large list of emails, need to
> send an email to each person.  Also, I'm using smtp.gmail.com as my
> smarthost, so I probably need to send them out pretty slow over a
> period of time, so as not to get blocked as spam.
> 
> We're talking about something like 500 addresses.  Any suggestions?
> 
> -- 
> Lance Simmons
> 
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