From: Michal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz>
To: sfischme@uwaterloo.ca, Notmuch Mail <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>
Subject: Re: Mail merge with notmuch
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 09:34:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vb6nmiu0.fsf@steelpick.2x.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87twmdqkwg.fsf@uwaterloo.ca>
Hi Sebastian,
On Sat, Jan 16 2016, Sebastian Fischmeister wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a straightforward way to for mail merge with notmuch? I need to
> send emails with only minor modifications to a number of people. If I
> could send mails from the command line, then that would be perfect.
>
> Any ideas?
You can do this easily without notmuch. You need a locally configured
MTA such as sendmail or exim (which provides sendmail alias) and then
run something like:
cat people | while read EMAIL NAME; do
sendmail -t <<EOF
From: Me <me@xample.com>
To: $EMAIL
Subject: Foobar
Hello $NAME!
...
EOF
done
BR
-Michal
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2016-01-16 21:40 Mail merge with notmuch Sebastian Fischmeister
2016-01-21 8:34 ` Michal Sojka [this message]
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