best/easiest commandline email program for mass-email

[Gilles Gravier]

Hi!

On 27/01/2010 22:21, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> Alex Janssen wrote:
>   
>> Alex Janssen wrote:
>>     
>>> I must send personalized email to our clients, about 2500.  So I figured 
>>> on putting together each with a shell script and then sending the file 
>>> with a commandline email program.  I was looking for suggestions on what 
>>> might be the best package to install for this.  I have seen a suggestion 
>>> for a program called "mail", but I can't figure out what package to 
>>> install to get it.  I looked at the list presented by Synaptic, but 
>>> there's a boat load of programs related to email.
>>>
>>> If anyone has done this sort of thing, I'd sure appreciate your suggestions.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Alex
>>> -Ubuntu 9.10 on several computers since version 5.04
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> Please, pardon me for replying to myself, but I found and installed 
>> mailx.  Whats the best configuration for me to use?
>>
>> Alex
>>
>>     
> Please use apt-get install mailutils to be able use mail 
> either on your own LAN or on the Internet.
>
> 	The way you use mail is to in a terminal type mail.
>
> 73 Karl
>   
"mailx" tends to be a bit more user-friendly than vanila "mail". When
I've had to use a text-based mail system, "mailx" was the choice.

There's a much fancier mail client that used to be called "pine" but has
been discontinued but replaced by "alpine" :
http://www.washington.edu/alpine/ which you can install in Ubuntu by
typing "sudo apt-get install alpine" and that will install all the
dependencies.

Apline is text-terminal oriented, but unlike "mailx", it actually uses a
user interface (albeit in vt220 mode). So may be easier to use than
mailx if you are not an expert.

Gilles.