<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">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.</font>
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Shalom (Regards), Mati<br>
Bidi Architect<br>
Globalization Center Of Competency
- Bidirectional Scripts<br>
IBM Israel<br>
Phone: +972 2 5888802 Fax:
+972 2 5870333 Mobile: +972 52 2554160<br>
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<br><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Sent by: linux-il-bounces@cs.huji.ac.il</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Arial">Hello</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Arial">are you looking for something like:</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial">mail -s "subject line" to <
${MSG}</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial">cat file | mail -s "subject line"
to</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial">replace: subject line, to, ${MSG}, file with
your values</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial">rape everything in a script</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Arial">Shahar</font>
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<br><font size=3>----- Original Message ----- </font>
<br><font size=3><b>From:</b> </font><a href=mailto:matial@il.ibm.com><font size=3 color=blue><u>Matitiahu
Allouche</u></font></a><font size=3> </font>
<br><font size=3><b>To:</b> </font><a href="mailto:linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il"><font size=3 color=blue><u>linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il</u></font></a><font size=3>
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<br><font size=3><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, July 21, 2009 11:25 PM</font>
<br><font size=3><b>Subject:</b> choice of e-mail agent for batch processing</font>
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The following is a quite naive question, and not strictly Linux-oriented,
so delete this mail if you find it offending.</font><font size=3> <br>
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My problem is the following: </font><font size=3><br>
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I need to periodically (once a month) send an e-mail message to a number
of recipients (about a hundred).</font><font size=3> </font><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><br>
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.</font><font size=3> </font><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><br>
Each message will also have one file attachment (the same for all recipients).</font><font size=3>
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I don't have access to a mail server except as a regular client.</font><font size=3>
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I am ready to write whatever programs are needed to put the data in proper
format, including the HTML sugar on the plain text.</font><font size=3>
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I am ready to write scripts as needed.</font><font size=3> <br>
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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.</font><font size=3> </font><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><br>
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.</font><font size=3> <br>
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Some googling has provided the following mail-agent names which seem to
answer my requirements:</font><font size=3> </font><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><br>
Alpine, Gnus, Mutt, Pine, VM (View Mail)</font><font size=3> <br>
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I will appreciate any advice, either positive or negative, concerning those
programs, or others which answer my requirements.</font><font size=3> </font><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><br>
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Shalom (Regards), Mati<br>
Bidi Architect<br>
Globalization Center Of Competency -
Bidirectional Scripts<br>
IBM Israel<br>
Phone: +972 2 5888802 Fax:
+972 2 5870333 Mobile: +972 52 2554160</font>
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