[CLUE-Tech] Open source mass mailing software?

[Sean LeBlanc]

On 03-01 11:02, Grant Johnson wrote:
> 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.

Sweet. I'll be looking forward to it. The current software in place is a
real PITA. Luckily, I'm not the one that has to do it - but I do hear gripes
about it every time it has to be done, and I thought I'd look into
ways to help out.


> 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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