[TriLUG] looking for mass-email software

[Jeremy Portzer]

You can really just do this with your own script.  I use Perl and the
Mail::Sendmail module, available from CPAN or cpan2rpm.  

I've posted a modified version of my script here:
	http://www.trilug.org/~jeremy/massemail.pl

In my case, it takes an input file which has the names and e-mail
addresses of the recipients (whitespace delimited).  The e-mail text
itself is hard-coded in the script, but it could easily be read from an
outside file if desired.  The To: header filled in with the name and
e-mail address from the user.  To the end user, it looks just like a
normal text email sent directly to them.

Let me know if you have any questions about how to do this -- this is
the perfect application of a scripting language like Perl.  I think it
should fit all of your requirements.

--Jeremy

On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 14:26, Christopher L Merrill wrote:
> I need to send e-mails to a large group of people (specifically,
> a club membership).  I've looked at a number of solutions, but
> all have fallen short of my requirements:
> 
> 1) Easy to re/import the e-mail addresses from a text file
> 2) complete control of sender and reply-to headers, regardless
>     of what SMTP server I route the e-mails through
> 3) customization of each message with the To: headers for each
>     recipient set accordingly (and no listing of the other recipients)
> 4) no headers, footers or other content other than my intended message
> 
> I'd been using mailman on my linux server, but it falls short on #2,
> unless somebody can tell me how to get around that.  I can't find a
> way to override the "From:" header -- it seems to be linked to the
> preferred domain - I need the e-mails to come 'from' the domain of
> the organization - and I have no control over their server.
> 
> The online solutions I've explored (e.g. Yahoo! Groups) also fall short
> of the above requirements or are too expensive.  Either linux or windows
> solutions are acceptable - although a linux server-based solution would
> be preferred.  Since this is a non-profit organization, cheap is good.
> I'm willing to pay, if I find a _very good_ program.  Anything less and
> it must be free.
> 



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