best/easiest commandline email program for mass-email

Alex Janssen alex at ourwoods.org
Tue Feb 2 17:26:25 UTC 2010


Alex Janssen wrote:
> 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?
>
>
>   
I see that was a dumb question.  Postfix provides a sendmail equivalent.

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