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[Boaz Bezborodko]

>
> Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 13:20:26 -0500 From: Fairlight 
> <fairlite at fairlite.com> Subject: Re: e-mail To: FilePro Mailing List 
> <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> Message-ID: 
> <20091209132026.A12511 at iglou.com> Content-Type: text/plain; 
> charset=us-ascii 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...
>
> mark->
> -- Audio panton, cogito singularis,
Since I use Windows-based FPro I use Windows-based e-mail programs.  In 
this case I use Blat (http://www.blat.net/194/ ).

Blat has an option that allows you to send BCC to a list defined in a 
separate file.

Set up Blat (or use the command line parameters for smtp server and 
'from'address). Create the e-mail as a file.  Create the file of e-mail 
addresses to send to.  Then run the command:
Blat <e-mail_filename> -bf <filename_of_bcc_addresses> -subject 
<subject_line>

Blat has many other options available if needed including sending 
attachments, etc.

HTH,

Boaz
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