Re: Linux command line utility to send to email list?

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Author: Matt Graham
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Subject: Re: Linux command line utility to send to email list?
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 2:18 PM, <> wrote:
>> What would be the best *simple* command line utility to send an email
>> message to a small (100) list of email addresses?


You have a machine that's running an SMTP server or something that can
be used as a smarthost, right? This machine could be used for this.
Have a text file called listofmails.txt that had 1 mailing address per
line. Then put the mail you'd like to send in mailtosend.txt. Then:

for i in `cat listofmails.txt` ; do
    mail -s 'A SUBJECT' $i < mailtosend.txt
    done


Of course, this assumes you have a machine where the mail command
works, which might not always be the case. If you have to use a
different From: address, then this won't work.

On 2013-12-17 14:41, Stephen Partington wrote:
> The idea of a mailing list might be a better idea. you can power one
> yourself with a listserv or use Google groups.


listservs can get complicated.

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