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Smile Maker [britto_can at yahoo.com]
Folks,
Suggest me one good mass mailer program for linux ( So i am looking for free).
The project i found in sourceforge was not helpful for me.
-- Britto
Thomas Adam [thomas.adam22 at gmail.com]
On 15/06/07, Smile Maker <britto_can@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Folks, > > Suggest me one good mass mailer program for linux ( So i am looking for > free).
A very odd question to ask. There is no such thing. Any MTA and by definition (because that's where the email originates in terms of the sender), MUA will do this, you just have to marry them up such that they work.
> The project i found in sourceforge was not helpful for me.
Which project? I'm slightly suspicious of such a question anyway, since it comes across as spamming. If you can rephrase your question to be more specific, maybe I'll answer it properly.
-- Thomas Adam
Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 02:49:49AM -0700, Smile Maker wrote:
> Folks, > > Suggest me one good mass mailer program for linux ( So i am looking for > free).
Well, that's a meaningful question in (e.g.) the Wind0ws environment - when email is a Mystical, Magical, complicated function that requires much praying to the gods of chance and sacrificing small animals, then you need "mass mailers" and such. In Linux, you would just use a 'for' loop to feed a list of addresses to an MUA - so asking questions about "mass mailers" is going to generally result in puzzlement and incomprehension. It's sort of like asking "where can I get air to breathe?" The question makes sense if you're used to living on the Moon and extracting your oxygen from rocks - but here on Earth it's just a part of the environment.
In addition, the people most likely to ask about "mass mailers" are spammers - and to most people here, your question is going to smell very strongly of that. I'd suggest that you explain what it is you're trying to do (hopefully, it will be some legitimate purpose) and provide some useful details. We'll most likely be able to help you with any reasonable question in this category.
> The project i found in sourceforge was not helpful for me.Yeah, finding a Moon suit with a built-in oxygen extractor would be pretty tough around here.
#!/bin/bash # Created by Ben Okopnik on Fri Jun 15 15:11:48 EDT 2007 # foomailer: displays "mass mailer"-like output, with some tweaks.addr=(a@a b@b c@c d@d e@e f@f g@g h@h i@i j@j k@k l@l m@m n@n o@o p@p q@q r@r s@s t@t u@u v@v w@w x@x y@y z@z) text=(Cuiusvis hominis est errare, nullius nisi insipientis in errore perseverare. -- Cicero, "Philippicae orationes") for ((a=0;a<${#addr[*]};a++)) do ((index=$a % ${#text[*]})) printf "%-30s| %s\n" "echo \"${text[$index]}\"" "mail -s \"Hello, world!\" ${addr[$a]}" done
ben@Tyr:/tmp$ ./foomailer echo "Cuiusvis" | mail -s "Hello, world!" a@a echo "hominis" | mail -s "Hello, world!" b@b echo "est" | mail -s "Hello, world!" c@c echo "errare," | mail -s "Hello, world!" d@d echo "nullius" | mail -s "Hello, world!" e@e echo "nisi" | mail -s "Hello, world!" f@f echo "insipientis" | mail -s "Hello, world!" g@g echo "in" | mail -s "Hello, world!" h@h echo "errore" | mail -s "Hello, world!" i@i echo "perseverare." | mail -s "Hello, world!" j@j echo "--" | mail -s "Hello, world!" k@k echo "Cicero," | mail -s "Hello, world!" l@l echo "Philippicae orationes" | mail -s "Hello, world!" m@m echo "Cuiusvis" | mail -s "Hello, world!" n@n echo "hominis" | mail -s "Hello, world!" o@o echo "est" | mail -s "Hello, world!" p@p echo "errare," | mail -s "Hello, world!" q@q echo "nullius" | mail -s "Hello, world!" r@r echo "nisi" | mail -s "Hello, world!" s@s echo "insipientis" | mail -s "Hello, world!" t@t echo "in" | mail -s "Hello, world!" u@u echo "errore" | mail -s "Hello, world!" v@v echo "perseverare." | mail -s "Hello, world!" w@w echo "--" | mail -s "Hello, world!" x@x echo "Cicero," | mail -s "Hello, world!" y@y echo "Philippicae orationes" | mail -s "Hello, world!" z@z
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