[CLUE-Tech] Open source mass mailing software?

[Grant Johnson]

I am currently (today) writing one with mail merge and customized 
messages.  I will post it to the list when it is done.  GPL!!!!!!   Post 
back any improvements.

Sean LeBlanc wrote:

>On 03-01 09:31, Jim Ockers wrote:
>
>>Here is what I do for mass mailings:
>>
>>>everyone who has an account on a particular system.  I plan to build a 
>>>big file of email and SMTP commands using PERL and getting the info from 
>>>the database from the app.  Then I will just dump that file on the mail 
>>>server.
>>>
>>===============SHELL SCRIPT===============
>>#!/bin/sh
>>
>>for email in `cat mailing-list.txt` ; do
>> echo "From: whoever at us.pason.com (Sender's Name)" > asdf
>> echo "To: $email" >> asdf
>> cat mass-letter.txt >> asdf
>>
>> cat asdf | sendmail -fwhoever at us.pason.com $email
>>done
>>
>>rm asdf
>>===============SHELL SCRIPT===============
>>
>
>Thanks for all the input. The above looks like it might be nearly what I
>need....if not, I guess I could convert to Perl if we reach the limitation
>you spoke of? 
>
>Also: I failed to mention in my original message that a
>"nice to have" would be some kind of mail-merge capability.
>
>Eventually, the ideal would be to have something that could be configured
>and kicked off via a browser interface. 
>
>Alas, sendmail is NOT currently set up on the box in question. Sendmail
>intimidates me.  :)
>

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