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From: Michal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz>
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Subject: Re: Mail merge with notmuch
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Hi Sebastian,

On Sat, Jan 16 2016, Sebastian Fischmeister wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a straightforward way to for mail merge with notmuch? I need to
> send emails with only minor modifications to a number of people. If I
> could send mails from the command line, then that would be perfect.
>
> Any ideas?

You can do this easily without notmuch. You need a locally configured
MTA such as sendmail or exim (which provides sendmail alias) and then
run something like:

    cat people | while read EMAIL NAME; do
      sendmail -t <<EOF
    From: Me <me@xample.com>
    To: $EMAIL
    Subject: Foobar
     
    Hello $NAME!
    ...
    EOF
    done

BR
-Michal