Re: How to resend message multiple times effectively
On 25.09.2007 (01:10), Jiang Qian wrote: I'm sure we can write some kind of poor man's python script or shell/sed/awk script to add or remove address from this. You can then invoke this on the BCC field. But the question was how to make them appear, one by one, in separate mails, in the TO field. Something like: 1. Have a file with a list of addresses, 2. Have a message ready to be sent, only waiting for the TO line, 3. Have a script (sed?) which scans the address file line by line, and for each line inserts it in the appropriate place in the mail, sends it off, and goes to the next item. In other words some kind of mail-merge function, right? -- We are Pentium of Borg. Division is futile. You will be approximated. (seen in someone's .signature)
How to resend message multiple times effectively
Hi all, I need to send the same message to multiple recipients. So what I am currently doing is invoking resend-message repeatedly and changing the to address. Is it possible to do this in one shot? As in fire multiple emails, one for each address containing the same body. Thanks -- Regards, Ajeet pgpItvKLlKwt1.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: How to resend message multiple times effectively
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday, September 24 at 07:57 PM, quoth Ajeet: I need to send the same message to multiple recipients. So what I am currently doing is invoking resend-message repeatedly and changing the to address. Is it possible to do this in one shot? As in fire multiple emails, one for each address containing the same body. What's wrong with including them all in the To, CC, or Bcc headers? ~Kyle - -- The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest. -- Thomas Jefferson: Rights of British America, 1774 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Comment: Thank you for using encryption! iD8DBQFG+IfzBkIOoMqOI14RAvlwAJ95tAjjxl4HkYbBHahBFOxXW05o4wCeNlQx Bs+nNCUX/cTh+b95JnSuXNo= =ZT6L -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: How to resend message multiple times effectively
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 23:00:51 -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote: What's wrong with including them all in the To, CC, or Bcc headers? Well the concern may seem vague to you and you may not agree. I think that in certain situations, it pays to make your email seem personal. If I receive an email in which I am not any of the addresses (when I am Bcc'ed) or when I am one of a large number of recipients, it feels to me like a public broadcast. I guess its more of etiquette issue. -- Regards, Ajeet pgpyNCYutf2Ac.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: How to resend message multiple times effectively
For a few dozen recipients or less, place all the recipient addresses (comma-delimited) on the BCC: line, and place your own address on the TO: line. About a year ago, I had need to make a periodic mailing to a few hundred email addresses. I tried several approaches, but I did not find a satisfactory open-source package. Maybe I'm missing something obvious here, but what's wrong with having an alias file of this kind of content and the source it on .muttrc: alias mailinglist1 New List \ email address 1,\ email address 2,\ . . . email address n,\ my own address I'm sure we can write some kind of poor man's python script or shell/sed/awk script to add or remove address from this. You can then invoke this on the BCC field. Is this some sort of a performance problem? If so, that's not the fault of mutt but of $sendmail you're using, since that's what's handling it. But I serious doubt that a few hundred email can choke, say, postfix on a decently powerful machine. Let me know what I'm missing here. Jiang It appears that most of the mass mailing software has been written for Window$, and must be purchased. And some of the mass mailing software for Window$ is very good. If you have need to make a mass mailing on a regular basis, you may find that the best approach is to devote an old Window$ machine to the task, and shop around for a Window$ application. RLH
