Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2019 17:21:20 -0500 From: Software Info <softwareinfojam@gmail.com> To: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz>, "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Mailx Question Message-ID: <5cad1ae0.1c69fb81.b5b11.08ae@mx.google.com> In-Reply-To: <0d44d441-3120-c140-40da-7a32baff0cae@quip.cz> References: <5cad0a1f.1c69fb81.c5304.4f33@mx.google.com> <0d44d441-3120-c140-40da-7a32baff0cae@quip.cz>
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Fantastic. Works like a charm. Thank you very much.
Kind Regards
SI
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From: Miroslav Lachman
Sent: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 4:40 PM
To: Software Info; freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Mailx Question
Software Info wrote on 2019/04/09 23:09:
> Hi All
> Since mailx is built into FreeBSD I decided to try asking this question h=
ere. I have a text file with about 30 email addresses. The file will change=
every day. I want an easy commandline way to read the file and blind copy =
send an email to the addresses in the file. So far, I have this working wit=
h just a plain send using the command below.
> mailx -s "Test Emails" -b `cat mylist.txt` < body.txt -r "No-Reply<no-rep=
ly@email.com>"
>=20
> Of course, when I use a plain send, everybody sees everybody=E2=80=99s em=
ail address so I would love to be able to do a blind copy send. Would anyon=
e be able to assist me with this?
It may depend on your MTA (Sendmail, Postfix, Exim etc.)
"You must specify direct recipients with -s, -c, or -b."
-b bcc-addr
Send blind carbon copies to bcc-addr list of users. The bcc-addr
argument should be a comma-separated list of names.
You should replace newlines with comma:
cat mylist.txt | tr "\n" ","
Maybe something like this will work for you:
mail -s "Test E-mails" -b `cat mylist.txt | tr "\n" ","`=20
my-generic@example.com < body.txt
Miroslav Lachman
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