choice of e-mail agent for batch processing
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) 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 502Fax: +972 2 5870333Mobile: +972 52 2554160 ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: choice of e-mail agent for batch processing
2009/7/22 Matitiahu Allouche > 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. If you are already going to code things and need it to run both on Linux and Windows then my personal choice would be Perl 5 (http://strawberryperl.com/ for Windows version) with Net::SMTP (http://search.cpan.org/~gbarr/libnet-1.22/Net/SMTP.pm) for the SMTP part. Perl will also provide you with templating tools (e.g. TemplateToolkit, start with http://search.cpan.org/~abw/Template-Toolkit-2.22/lib/Template.pm and http://template-toolkit.org/) to allow you to "mail merge" constant text with dynamic data. If you don't want to use perl Net::SMTP then mutt seems most approperiate "shell-level" command to use for that, IMHO. I'll bet the Python Phanatics among us will list the Python equivalent of the above :). Hope this helps, please let us know how it went. Cheers, --Amos ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: choice of e-mail agent for batch processing
Hello
are you looking for something like:
mail -s "subject line" to < ${MSG}
cat file | mail -s "subject line" to
replace: subject line, to, ${MSG}, file with your values
rape everything in a script
Shahar
- Original Message -
From: Matitiahu Allouche
To: linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il
Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 11:25 PM
Subject: choice of e-mail agent for batch processing
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)
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 502Fax: +972 2 5870333Mobile: +972 52
2554160
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Re: choice of e-mail agent for batch processing
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 502Fax: +972 2 5870333Mobile: +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
Re: choice of e-mail agent for batch processing
I am not worried by the substitutions, I can do that in a number of ways.
I am worrried about how to interface with the mail agent, which of course
raises the qestion of which program to choose as mail agent.
Shalom (Regards), Mati
Bidi Architect
Globalization Center Of Competency - Bidirectional Scripts
IBM Israel
Phone: +972 2 502Fax: +972 2 5870333Mobile: +972 52
2554160
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Re: choice of e-mail agent for batch processing
Hello
are you looking for something like:
mail -s "subject line" to < ${MSG}
cat file | mail -s "subject line" to
replace: subject line, to, ${MSG}, file with your values
rape everything in a script
Shahar
- Original Message -
From: Matitiahu Allouche
To: linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il
Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 11:25 PM
Subject: choice of e-mail agent for batch processing
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)
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 502Fax: +972 2 5870333Mobile: +972 52
2554160
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