Linux command line utility to send to email list?

[keith smith]

If you are going to maintain a mailing list I would suggest a free http://mailchimp.com/ account.


 
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Keith Smith



On Tuesday, December 17, 2013 3:18 PM, Matt Graham <mhgraham at crow202.org> wrote:
 
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 2:18 PM, <joe at actionline.com> 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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