Using Sendmail to send emails to multiple recipients

Intermediate Level

Introduction

This tutorial will show you how, in my usual practical terms, to send an email to multiple recipients using the Sendmail program. There are many ways to do this, various techniques using various languages, this way is but one of the many. It is the one I found easiest to get to grips with.

What we are going to need for this tutorial are :-

• Access to the Sendmail program
• Access to the PERL interpreter
• Access to the cgi-bin directory
• A Text file containing a list of email addresses
• A Text file containing the contents of an email OR
• An HTML page containing a HTML version of an email.
• A perl script file containing to choose and send the email.

The first three items in the list I can not help with (unless you wish to purchase some cheap webspace from me !) They are available from your Web space provider, check that you have these enabled for your package before continuing on.