Shell Programming and Scripting

How can I send the same form email to multiple users, but with variances like their username, password, and login host or environment? At work we use vdi's which are extremely slow - especially opening Outlook to open a form letter saved on Sharepoint. I was wondering if I could put the users' email addresses in a txt file and send a form email but with variables that would change for each user like $USER, $PASSWORD, $HOSTNAME.

I've been playing with the "mail" command and have been able to send test emails to myself so I'd like to just keep a text file of users who have been provisioned with access and then send out the form correspendence at the end of the day. I don't know if this is really an efficient means - I've heard of something called a "mail merge" which I believe you can do through Outlook - but just thought I'd see what your ideas would be. The email contains all the same login procedures but I can't just bcc each user because the hostnames and passwords are specific for each user (in separate emails of course). Thanks.

guess the username is same as mailbox ID.

for example, you have your csv file (list.csv) ready as following format:

Code:

username, password, login host, environment

run below code:

Code:

while read line
do
   username=`echo $line |cut -d, -f1`
   echo $line |mailx -s " your accont - $username" $username@YOUR_ORG.com
done < list.csv

Hey thanks a lot for your reply. I was thinking of just going with a mail merge in Outlook because we send email with all that information, but apparently my boss claims he can do all this and also include the html formatting. So we'll see how that goes - I had to submit a proposal to implement all this - and if my boss if full of it then I'll try your method.