choice of e-mail agent for batch processing

[Shahar Dag]

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 at 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 5888802    Fax: +972 2 5870333    Mobile: +972 52 2554160



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