On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 23:25 +0300, Matitiahu Allouche wrote: > > The following is a quite naive question, and not strictly > Linux-oriented, so delete this mail if you find it offending. > > My problem is the following: > > I need to periodically (once a month) send an e-mail message to a > number of recipients (about a hundred). > Each message is different and will be created as a separate file by an > application which is not of concern. The message may be plain text, > but HTML is preferred. > Each message will also have one file attachment (the same for all > recipients). > I don't have access to a mail server except as a regular client. > I am ready to write whatever programs are needed to put the data in > proper format, including the HTML sugar on the plain text. > I am ready to write scripts as needed. > > I am looking for a mail agent, probably working from the command line, > which can send all my messages as a batch, or that I can invoke > repeatedly within a script to send each message in turn. > This mail agent should be available under Linux and Windows (I know, I > know...), should be free (as in free beer) or cost just a few dollars, > preferably open source. > > Some googling has provided the following mail-agent names which seem > to answer my requirements: > Alpine, Gnus, Mutt, Pine, VM (View Mail) actually you don't need these clients, you can send mail directly by sendmail or any other MTA on system or write a script by any script language, for example by perl.
few links: http://www.google.co.il/search?hl=en&q=how+to+send+mail+by +perl&btnG=Google+Search&meta=&aq=f&oq= http://search.cpan.org/search?m=all&q=sendmail Thanks, Serge. > > I will appreciate any advice, either positive or negative, concerning > those programs, or others which answer my requirements. > > > Shalom (Regards), Mati > Bidi Architect > Globalization Center Of Competency - Bidirectional Scripts > IBM Israel > Phone: +972 2 5888802 Fax: +972 2 5870333 Mobile: +972 > 52 2554160 > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il