WubMail

WubMail is a small command line tool to send emails to using a template and a list of emails.

$ gem install wubmail

users.txt:

email,name,sex
jack@example.com,Jack,male
gwen@example.com,Gwen,female
ianto@example.com,Ianto,male

welcome.txt:

From: Sunny <sunny@sunfox.org>
To: <%= name %> <<%= email %>>
Subject: Hello <%= name %>!

Hello <%= name %>,
You are one hell of a cute <%= sex == "female" ? "girl" : "boy" %>!

Then type in a terminal:

$ wubmail welcome.txt users.csv

And it will print out an example. Send it to everybody by adding the -s argument. That's it!

Just create new columns in your csv. You may use any column name you want as long as it can be a Ruby variable name.

The message is parsed using erb, which means you can put any amount of Ruby you'd like in it, between <% and %>.

Just add lines under From, To and Subject.

friends.csv:

email,arrival_time,ps
naps@example.com,18
srzt@example.com,16
phil@example.com,16
webs@example.com,18,PS: Don't be late this time!
gamo@example.com,18,PS: Don't forget to bring one of your favorite recipes.

party-email.txt.erb:

From: Sunny <sunny@sunfox.org>
To: <%= email %>
Subject: Great Party
X-Mailer: Wubmail/1.0

Hello,
Just a quick note to tell you that for the great party
you should arrive at <%= arrival_time %> o'clock.

Thanks,
Sunny

<%= ps %>

By Sunny Ripert http://sunfox.org, under the WTFPL http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/.