====== Scripted Email ====== Used to send email to list of people from flat file. Usually when sending from server you want the reply-to set correctly so the replies go to a proper email account. ===== Input File ===== The input file is cre.txt and has the following format * Header: Username Password Email * Rows: userid password email * Fields are space delimited Sample file Username Password Email hjames N8dseRzx8l someone1@example.org itom 08sdfssRPd someone2@example.org klucy 1eh4g6y88 someone3@example.org ===== Updates to script ===== Things to update in script are * input file location (input) * Subject (subject1) * Body as appropriate * replyto field ===== Code ===== The tr command is optional. In case the file arrived from DOS/WINDOWS it may have funny characters #!/bin/bash cat cre.txt | tr -d '\015' > cre1.txt input=cre1.txt subject1="Some Subject" while read -r line do IFS=" " read -r f1 f2 f3 <<<"$line" if [ ! $f1 = "Username" ]; then echo "Emailing $f3 ..." body1="You Userid is $f1 and Password is $f2" echo $body1 | mailx -s "$subject1" -S replyto=someuser@example.com "$f3" fi done <"$input" ===== Keywords ===== for loop mass