RE: Suggestions on One-Time Mailing

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David C. Hart [mailto:dch@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 3:01 AM
> To: Fedora-List
> Subject: Suggestions on One-Time Mailing
> 
> 
> I know that this is a bit OT but this group has some very experienced
> *nix users.
> 
> I have to do a one-time mailing for a client (NOT spam). I have a text
> file of 400 email addresses. Any suggestions on a simple way 
> to do this?

In Case you didn't solve it already.. Here's a simple shell script 
I use to get my users to change passwords

#!/bin/tcsh
#
# mail-all: This mails the users specified in a filename
#
# USAGE : mail-all /path/to/username/file "Message Filename"
# Writen and Adapted from abs-guide.pdf by Ow Mun Heng
# check for a subject
#

if ($1 == "") then
	echo
	echo You did not supply a Username file
	echo Correct usage is :-
	echo 	$0 usernamefile.txt "filename" 
	echo
	echo
	exit 1
else 
	# Get the name of the username file
	set usernamefile=$1
endif

if (`echo $2 | awk '{ print $1 }'` == "") then
        echo
        echo You did not supply a Message File Name
        echo Correct usage is :-
        echo    $0 usernamefile.txt  "Message File"
        echo
        exit 2
else
	set messagefile="$2"
endif

#
# Check that the file exists
#
if (-f $usernamefile && -f $messagefile) then
	echo Sending the mail to the specified users
else
	echo File does not exist
	exit 3
endif


#
# Loop through every login name but skip the 1st 38 accounts
#
#foreach user (`awk -F: '{ print $1 }' /etc/passwd | tail +36`)
foreach user (`awk -F: '{ print $1 }' $usernamefile | tail +38` )
#foreach user (`awk -F: '{ print $1 }' $usernamefile`)

	#Mail the file
	echo
	echo Sending mail to $user
	echo mail -s '"Pls Change Password"' $user < $messagefile
	mail -s "Pls Change Password" $user < $messagefile
	echo
	# Sleep for a few seconds so we don't overload the mailer
	sleep 2
end
#
#	echo ALL Done....