best/easiest commandline email program for mass-email

Alex Janssen alex at ourwoods.org
Tue Feb 2 17:02:53 UTC 2010


Hal Burgiss wrote:
>
> You can also echo text directly to "sendmail", but you have to build your
> headers from scratch. Not as difficult as it sounds:
>
> ( echo "From: $from"
>   echo "To: $to"
>   echo "Subject: $subject"
>   echo "Reply-To: $replyto"
>   ! [ "$cc" == "" ] && echo "Cc: $cc"
>   ! [ "$bcc" == "" ] && echo "Bcc: $bcc"
>   echo "$x_lines"
>   if $HTML; then
>    echo  "MIME-Version: 1.0"
>    echo "Content-Type: text/html; charset=\"ISO-8859-1\""
>   fi
>   # Add required blank line to separate header/body.
>   echo
>   # Body goes now ...
>   cat $tempfile
> ) | $sendmail $ffrom
>
>
>   
Would postfix work in the above example?


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