Re: script to send out a dozen letters?

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 03:44:04PM -0700, Chris Cowart wrote:
Gary Kline wrote:

[[ ... ]]


Here's a script I whipped up a year or two ago that sends out e-mails.
You could definitely tweak it to find/replace a LaTeX template and send
it directly to the printer (circa the `| sendmail` line). See the
included readme (excuse the twiki formatting). While it was written for
bash, it may run under /bin/sh (but I make no claims).

It's really straightforward. I would die a little inside if it were used
to send HTML e-mail, but there's nothing to stop you from writing HTML
(by hand) into the template (or saving a message out of your GUI MUA of
choice into a flat file and using that as your template).

--
Chris Cowart
Network Technical Lead
Network & Infrastructure Services, RSSP-IT
UC Berkeley


[[ saving :-) ]]


<verbatim>
EMAIL;LNAME;FNAME;FOOD
ccowart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;Cowart;Chris;Bananas
keenanp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;Keenan;Parms;Ice Cream
jeremydw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;Jeremy;Weinstein;Rabbit Food
</verbatim>

Call this file ~/email_data.

*Note:* The only column title with special meaning is "EMAIL" and it *must*
appear in the data file. All other columns follow brain-dead substitutions
and do not affect the behavior of the automailer.

---++ The Template File
Here, you compose your e-mail. Note you must conform to RFC822 (Here's a
summary of the relevant points):
* You must include the To, From, Cc, and Subject headers.
* Headers must be properly formatted (=Name: Contents Can Have Spaces=)
* The headers end with a blank line. There must be a blank line before
you begin your message.

*Example:*

<verbatim>
From: The Party Planning Committee <ppc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: FNAME LNAME <EMAIL>
Subject: The Potluck

Hello FNAME,

Please remember to bring FOOD to the potluck.

Thanks,

The Party Planning Committee
</verbatim>

Call this file ~/email_template.

*Note:*
* Column titles (see The Data File section) will be substituted with the
current record's column contents. The address in the EMAIL column will
receive a copy of the message.
* Including a Cc or Bcc header in the template will *NOT* affect who
receives a copy of the message.

*Warning:* The recipient will receive the message AS-IS.
__Bcc Headers will not be filtered__.

---++ Sending the Message

After you declare the data file and template file (in that order), you may
add e-mail addresses to the command line (e.g., hiring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx).
Note that other than the recipient address, no addresses (Bcc or Cc) are
parsed from your message's headers. As such, if you have cc or bcc recipients,
you must declare them here. Note also that declaring recipients here does
*not* affect the To/From/Cc/Bcc headers in the actual e-mail message.

=automail ~/email_data ~/email_template cc_address1 bcc_address2=



Thanks to my friends amd fellow nerds who have come thru with this.
It turns out that there were only Seven people/firms for what I originally
wanted. [ it had to do with sellinf my book ]. --well, actually there
were 8 but the last one seemed like a stuffed shirt, so i passed on that
guy.

where these kinds of scripts will be useful is when i look for a job as an
ethicist. (I know, I know; wall street doesn't know what ethics is... .)
still, there are other places where the discipline is essential.

later on, people,

gary




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