On Mon, 20 May 2013, Paul Heinlein wrote: > 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.
Thanks, Paul. I'll read the m4 man page. And I see that mail is the same as mailx. Interesting. Much appreciated, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
