Template Question
Hello Fellow Mutters, I often have to send the same message to the same group of people. Specifically I send a note that a website has been updated. I have been doing this in Mutt using an alias that contains all of the email address the message is sent to and then hitting a key sequence to call a script that uses xclip and xdotool to paste the contents of a file into the message body. What I am wondering is there a way I can save the message recipients, message subject and message body as a template in mutt and then run a command to send that message whenever I wish? The idea is that I'd no longer have to type a subject or paste in the message body. -- John
Re: Template Question
El día Saturday, November 01, 2014 a las 05:06:42PM +0100, John Niendorf escribió: Hello Fellow Mutters, I often have to send the same message to the same group of people. Specifically I send a note that a website has been updated. I have been doing this in Mutt using an alias that contains all of the email address the message is sent to and then hitting a key sequence to call a script that uses xclip and xdotool to paste the contents of a file into the message body. What I am wondering is there a way I can save the message recipients, message subject and message body as a template in mutt and then run a command to send that message whenever I wish? The idea is that I'd no longer have to type a subject or paste in the message body. Hello, What about preparing the body in some file 'body' and sending it from a shell script like #!/bin/sh mutt -s 'My famous subject' -a my-attachment -- my-famous-alias body matthias -- Matthias Apitz | /\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign: E-mail: g...@unixarea.de | \ / - No HTML/RTF in E-mail WWW: http://www.unixarea.de/ | X- No proprietary attachments phone: +49-170-4527211 | / \ - Respect for open standards | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_Ribbon_Campaign
Never mind - I should have searched first
Sorry for the spam guys. I found the answer to my questions: Mutt also supports a ``batch'' mode to send prepared messages. Simply redirect input from the file you wish to send. For example, mutt -s data set for run #2 profes...@bigschool.edu ~/run2.dat This command will send a message to ``profes...@bigschool.edu'' with a subject of ``data set for run #2''. In the body of the message will be the contents of the file ``~/run2.dat''. -- John
