On Mon, 20 May 2013, Rich Shepard wrote:
I use mailx to distribute newsletters to individuals in named
lists. That list is then passed to mailx on the command line, along
with the message and a subject line in double quotation marks. I
want to learn if I can also add an individual greeting
(specifically, the recipient's name) to the body of the mail.
The man page seems to suggest that a mailx guru could use the -S
option to assign these names to a variable but I don't know how this
would be done.
Has anyone here used mailx like this and can offer me suggestions.
Or, are there other resources that might have examples of what I
want to do?
I've never used -S, so I'm not sure what setting internal variables in
mailx does. The tool I'd normally reach for in this situation is m4.
If, for instance, you were able to loop through a list of subscribers
and assign $NAME and $ADDRESS, then
m4 -D GREETING="$NAME" newsletter.m4 | mail -s "Subject" $ADDRESS
The newletter.m4 would contain the GREETING token which would get
replaced with $NAME.
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