Its possible that FASTMAIl will work for me but the docs are very
confusing to me as to the actual commands.
The doc is below.
All help REALLY APPRECIATED!
(BTW, my mailing list is to clients who has REQUESTED catalogs;
no SPAM!).
Best, John
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NAME
fastmail - quick batch mail interface to a single address
SYNOPSIS
fastmail [-b bcc-list] [-c cc-list] [-C comments] [-d] [-f
fromname] [-i msg-id] [-r replyto] [-R references] [-s sub-
ject] filename|- address-list
DESCRIPTION
_ F_ a_ s_ t_ m_ a_ i_ l is a low-level interface to the mail system
that
allows batch processing of mail. It's intended for mailing
to very large groups of people in a staggered fashion.
The starting options are;
-b bcc-list
This allows a list of people to receive blind-
carbon copies, or BCCs, of the message. This list
should be full email addresses.
-c cc-list
This allows a list of people to receive carbon
copies, or CCs, of the message. This list should
be full email addresses.
-C comments
This allows a Comments: line to be added to the
RFC822 header with any text you desire.
-d Debug. This is helpful for strange, unfriendly
errors from the program (etc).
-f from This overrides the users name in the From: line,
so that if the user was x@y, and their name was
MrX then the default From: line would be "From:
x@y (MrX)". Using "-f Joe" when invoking this,
though, would change it to "From: x@y (Joe)"
-i msg-id This allows a message-id to which this message
refers.
-r replyto
Occasionally, you might send mail but want the
replies to go to a different address (very common
with mailing lists). There is a header for this
purpose called "Reply-To:" which can be utilized
by using this starting option. For example, we
could send mail with a reply-to to list-request by
using "-r list-request". The header generated
would then be of the form "Reply-To: list-
request".
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-R references
This allows descriptive/reference text for this
message.
-s subject
The subject of the message is specified by using
this starting option.
Either the name of the file containing the message, or a -
to indicate usage of standard-in is required.
EXAMPLE
Let's say we're user "big" on machine "big-vax" and we have
a shell script called 'batch-mail' that contains the follow-
ing lines:
#
# Batch Mail - batch mailing of a file to a LOT of users
#
# Usage: batch-mail "from" "subject" filename
sender_copy = $LOGIN
replyto = "The-Mr-Big-list"
fastmail -b $sender_copy -r $replyto -f "$1" -s "$2" $3 person1
sleep 10
fastmail -r $replyto -f "$1" -s "$2" $3 person2
sleep 10
fastmail -r $replyto -f "$1" -s "$2" $3 person3
sleep 10
fastmail -r $replyto -f "$1" -s "$2" $3 person4
< etc >
with the invocation:
batch-mail "Mr. Big" "Warning to all" warning.text
would mail a copy of the 'warning.text' file to person1,
person2, person3, etc. "$LOGIN" will also receive a copy of
the first message in the mail, _ s_ i_ l_ e_ n_ t_ l_ y. Each
resultant
message will include the headers:
From: big-vax!big (Mr. Big)
Subject: Warning to all
Reply-To: The-Mr-Big-list
This program should turn out to be considerably faster than
the alternative methods of accomplishing this task.
FILES
/usr/lib/sendmail sendmail transport if available
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/bin/rmail transport if no sendmail
/tmp/fastmail.$$ temporary file
AUTHOR
Elm Development Group
SEE ALSO
sendmail(1), rmail(1), elm(1L)
BUG REPORTS TO
Syd Weinstein [log in to unmask] (dsinc!elm)
COPYRIGHTS
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Derived from Elm 2.0, Copyright 1986, 1987 by Dave Taylor
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