Thank You very much dear Ben Yau. That's what I wanted .... It is really a great help for me. I appreciate Your sense of humor also :))). Thanks again - Rudolf ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Yau" <byau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 11:38 PM Subject: RE: Help Me with shell script please > > > > > Hello All, > > > > I want to send the same mail massage to 100 people, but not in a way doing > > CC or BCC, but just a mail to a unique person... > > I have this 100 people email addresses in one file. The question is this: > > Is there a way to write some script which will do this job ? > > > > Here is a basic basic way to do it with on checks. By the way, can you log > in and run the script from the user whose email address you want the mail to > come from? THat makes it easier since you an use the "mail" command. If > not, it is a bit more convoluted (at least for me) since then I use the > "sendmail" command. > > Assume your mail message is in message.txt and your emails are in email.txt > (one address per line, no blank line at the end please) > (by the way , i was laughing when you mistyped message as "massage". > Imagine if you did "mail" as "male" and I'd be like that's something > interesting to send out to 100 people > > Okay..disclaimer: untested, non-guaranteed . Change pathnames as you see > fit. No sanity checks. > > --8<-- snip --8<--- > #!/bin/bash > # script for simple bulkmailing > > # get the addresses > alist=`/bin/cat ./emails.txt` > > # enter loop for each address > for a in $alist > do > #verbose output danka > echo "mailing to $a" > > #mail away > cat message.txt | mail -s "insert subject of message here" $a > > #traffic control > sleep 3 > done > > ---8<--- snip ---8<--- > > > that should be it. If you need to change the "From" email address, let me > know. It will get a bit more tricky. For 100 people, this should be > sufficient. For more than 100, there are a lot more things you'd want to do > with the script that will keep you and your server from getting bogged down. > > Also, I recommend that when you run the script you redirect the output to a > text file > lke output.txt and then in a separate window keep track of what's going on > with > > tail -f output.txt > > That way if the program crashes or mail server crashes you still have > output.txt so you can see what addresses have been sent to and which > haven't. > > Good luck > Ben Yau > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
