Automated Email

[Guest_imported]

Hi,

I have a text file that I would like to be able to email to several email addresses on a nightly basis. The file is updated during the day then these details will need to be passed to a selection of email addresses. Is this possible to automate this without me having to paste all the addresses into my mail program and attach the file?

Thanks,

Darren

 

[perlcoder]

Sorry but I don't exactly know what you're talking about. I used to do that on text files. Here's something similar:



open(MFILE, "mails.txt"
@email = <MFILE>;
close(MFILE);


foreach (@email) {
open(M, &quot;|/usr/lib/sendmail -t&quot;
print M &quot;To: $_\n&quot;;
print M &quot;From: your_name\@host.com\n&quot;;
print M &quot;Subject: subject\n&quot;;
print M &quot;$mail_msg<BR>&quot;;
close(M);
}

Hope it helps.

 

[tsdragon]

In order to get this to happen automatically every night you'll also need to set up a cron job (on unix, anyway). Tracy Dryden
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