Re: [Evolution] Use evolution to send out a list of messages from the command line

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Mon, 2021-09-06 at 13:09 -0400, dfc via evolution-list wrote:
> On Mon, 2021-09-06 at 18:46 +0200, Andre Klapper via evolution-list
> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2021-09-06 at 12:05 -0400, dfc via evolution-list wrote:
> > > Is it feasible to use evolution to send out messages one at a time
> > > via a shell script?
> > >
> > > I realize the evolution is closely tied to the GUI.
> >
> > Evolution isn't tied to a GUI. It is a GUI application.
> >
> > > I would like to be able to process small lists of email and store
> > > copies in my Outbox just as if I had sent them, one at a time, via
> > > the GUI.
> >
> > If you use a GUI anyway, why not use Evolution?
> > Could you please elaborate more on your specific use case?
> > Why is "one at a time" so important?
>
> My workflow involves sending out a message that has content that
> varies for each recipient (e.g. say I was reporting homework grades to
> each member of a class of 40 students). I could do this painfully in
> the gui. However, I have a script that substitutes the appropriate
> numbers, name, etc. into a template to create the appropriate
> personalized message for each student. I would also like the script to
> add a separate/unique file to each outgoing message as an attachment.
>
> I might do this with the unix mail but I would really like to keep the
> workflow within the framework of evolution.

I've used 'sendEmail', available in the Fedora repo:

Description  : SendEmail is a lightweight, completely command line based, SMTP e-mail
             : client. It was designed to be used in bash scripts, batch files, Perl
             : programs and web sites, but is also quite useful in many other contexts.
             : 
             : SendEmail is written in Perl and is unique in that it requires no special
             : modules. It has a straight forward interface, making it very easy to use.

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