best/easiest commandline email program for mass-email

[Karl F. Larsen]

Jay Daniels wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 15:00 -0700, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
>> Gilles Gravier wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>
>> 	I am not an expert. I recall an expert who was very busy 
>> around 1996 who used mail. He was in charge of the Internet at 
>> Stanford U. He could answer/read/delete with just a single 
>> keystroke.
>>
>> 	I used pine as my main email client for several years before 
>> Thunderbird came along. It worked fine.
>>
>> 	In mail I forget how to send a message I just typed. Do you 
>> recall what to use? I can't find it in man mail.
>>
>> 73 Karl
>>
>>
> 
> bsd mail went something like this...
> 
> mail -s "hello karl" karl at outerspace.edu
> The quick brown fox jumped over the fence.
> .
> 
> then i think you hit ctrl+d to send
> 
> quick and nasty.  hey could pipe a list of addresses to mail and if the
> text file was formated properly, there you have mass mailer.
> 
> 
> 
> jay
> 
> 
> 
	Well just fooling around I figured out that you simply type a 
period on a new line and wait a few seconds and it is sent. 
This is slick. To send mail I just type mail karl to send 
myself an email. Right now it is coming out as karl at Hardy but 
I recall that can be changed some how.

	So it comes back but slow.

73 Karl


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