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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
Old 10-01-2012
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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