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[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

Mark Luljak propounded (on Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 01:20:26PM -0500):
| The honourable and venerable J. P. Radley spoke thus:
| > ROBERT PULLIAM propounded (on Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 10:10:03AM -0500):
| > | Using unix - have field with e-mail addresses.  Is there a way
| > | to batch send to all patients with email address.  Can also transfer the data to a windows machine,  Would it be easier to send batch emails from Windows?
| > 
| > Spin out the email addresses into a file using the CSV format.
| > 
| > Then mail your message to `cat that_file`.
| 
| Uhm, JP?  And have the To: header contain -allllll- those addresses?
| 
| Bad, bad idea.
| 
| I can't believe you just advocated that.  I mean, I thought I'd seen
| everything, but I'm gonna go check and see if Satan is snowblowing his
| driveway...

Quick and dirty, eh?

If I were to use such a list, I'd address the mail to myself with a Bcc
to the file_list.

I know that mutt does not include the Bcc as a header but I think that
this is not necessarily the case for other MUAs.

-- 
JP