Do you have access to an SMTP server? If so, you can use awk and ssmtp or mailx. If you have perl, there is the Net::SMTP module that you can use to create emails. ----- Original message ----- From: "Yaron" <tclug at freakzilla.com> To: "TCLUG" <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 18:35:54 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Command-line e-mail-merge? I can probably throw something together in Perl in about 5-10 minutes, so drop me a note if you don't get any better answers. On Sun, 26 Jul 2009, Scott Raun wrote: > My google-fu is failing - the hits I'm getting are all for either GUI > stuff, or not quite what I'm headed for. > > Longer form - I have a file with e-mail and snail-mail addresses. I > need to send an e-mail to everyone in the file to verify their snail- > mail address. They all paid for a copy of a book 'on publication' - > payment was 1.5+ years ago, 'on publication' is in another month, we > need to make certain we have current addresses. > > Suggestions? Something to point me in an appropriate direction? > > -- > Scott Raun > sraun at fireopal.org > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -Yaron -- _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list