Re: Software for collecting email addresses

[Richard Lyons <richard@the-place.net>]

On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 12:44:21PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote:

> Am 2008-02-20 23:49:15, schrieb Depo Catcher:
> > 
> >    Along this lines, does anyone know of a program that can quickly send
> >    out mass emails to a bunch of different addresses?
> 
> ----8<--------------------------
> (cat ${FILE_WITH_EMAILS}) |
> while read EMAIL
> do
>   ssmtp -t <<<EOF
> To: ${EMAIL}
> From: Depo Catcher
> Subject: You are spamed by me
> Date: $(date --rfc-822)
> 
> This is spam and if you...
> EOF
> done
> ----8<--------------------------
> 

Oh Michelle, it's _you_ that sends me all those "Dear {EMAIL}, Try
{PRODUCT} today FREE!!!..." emails.  And I thought it was spammers who
were too dim to operate the mailmerge correctly.

Nice day to you too,

richard