From: Michal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 08:34:47 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Re: Mail merge with notmuch
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Re: Mail merge with notmuch
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+From: Michal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz>
+To: sfischme@uwaterloo.ca, Notmuch Mail <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>
+Subject: Re: Mail merge with notmuch
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+Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 09:34:47 +0100
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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