Re: [exim] Batch SMTP or text-files as input or text-to-queu…

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Andre Turpin
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Batch SMTP or text-files as input or text-to-queue insertion
On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Andre Turpin wrote:

> I've got some text files outputted from our billing systems that are rather
> pretty, and I'm looking to email these to each customer. They look like the
> following. Don't make too much fun, but we used to use a program called Sims
> on a Macintosh, and we could just drop the text files in the queue directory
> and it would process them and send them off (slowly...but it worked). Now
> I'm trying to do something similar with Exim 4.54. I've been fighting with
> sed to mung the files the way that the command-line "exim4 -bs < file" wants
> it but it's freaking impossible (for someone as challenged as I). Is there a
> clever (fast, simple) way that anyone would do this? Assume about 100-150 of
> these text files, and they don't have a trailing '.' at the end of the file.
>
> Begin file snip:
>
> From: New North Networks <xxxxxx@???>
> To: xxxxxx@???
> Subject: Cellular Account Statement
> Invoice No: C17264
> Date: 01/01/06


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Take a look at Exim's -t option.


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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service
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