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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Automated e-mailer problem Post 302708615 by jim mcnamara on Monday 1st of October 2012 10:25:11 PM

10-01-2012

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assuming that sendmail -t $tmp does work to send email. I do not see where the $uid variable gets used to address email. Oh well.
bash or ksh example using your code fragment:

Code:

#!/bin/bash
cnt=0;
for uid in $members
do
   sendmail -t  < $tmp
   cnt=$(( $cnt + 1 ))
   [  $(( $cnt % 15 )) -eq 0 ]   && wait
done 
wait

This sends 15 at one pass. You may have exceeded resource limits trying to send hundreds of emails at one time. I agree with corona -sometimes we have requirements that are there for a really poor reasons. Why is there a major time constraint on this job? Or are you simply learning how to do this?

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sensible-mda

SENSIBLE-MDA(8) 					      System Manager's Manual						   SENSIBLE-MDA(8)

NAME

       sensible-mda - a generic local MDA router for Debian systems

SYNOPSIS

       sensible-mda from to detail client-addr

DESCRIPTION

       sensible-mda  is used to simplify the installation and configuration of sendmail(8) , or other MTAs for use on Debian systems.  With sensi-
       ble-mda, sendmail can support a plethora of MDAs (procmail, maildrop, deliver, etc.) without having  pick any one of them as required.

FUNCTION

       sensible-mda is called by sendmail as a local mailer when the following exists in sendmail.mc:
       define(`LOCAL_MAILER_ARGS', `sensible-mda $g $u $h ${client_addr}')dnl

       sensible-mda will look for the following MDAs (in this order), and pass the mail on to the first SUID MDA found (Or first found MDA, if run
       w/euid=root): procmail(1), maildrop(1), deliver(8), mail.local(8)

OPTIONS

       Available command line options are the following:

       from   The sender of this email (sendmail $g variable)

       to     The recipient of this email (sendmail $u variable)

       detail The detail portion of the recipient userid (sendmail $h variable) - ie:
	      cowboy+sendmail@debian.org

       client-addr
	      TCP/IP address of the sender (sendmail ${client_addr} variable) Not used (for the nonce)

FILES

       /etc/mail/sendmail.mc
	      sendmail m4 input to generate sendmail.cf

       /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
	      actual sendmail configuration file (treated as a binary file)

SEE ALSO

       sendmail(8), procmail(1), maildrop(1), deliver(8), mail.local(8)

BUGS

       None known so far.

AUTHOR

       Richard Nelson <cowboy@debian.org>

HISTORY

4th Berkeley Distribution					  October 21 1999						   SENSIBLE-MDA(8)