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NAME

    limitmail - Send out notification emails but avoid flooding

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limitmail

SYNOPSIS

    limitmail --to email --from email --subject subject [file]

 Options:
   -h        get help
   --to      specify receiver's email address
   --from    specify sender's email address
   --subject specify the subject of the message

The mail text can be either specified as a file name or piped in through STDIN.

DESCRIPTION

limitmail is a tool for sending out notification messages via email. It works like a regular mailer, but keeps track who it sent a message to and when. On the next call of limitmail, it will silently discard messages to users who already received messages in a specified timeframe.

The parameter $NO_MORE_THAN_EVERY in the top section of the script specifies this timeframe in seconds.

Bottom line: You can call this script as often as you want, it'll send off messages to users no more often than once in a specified time frame.

EXAMPLES

This example sends the text in bill.txt off to the addressee specified:

  limitmail --to bgates@microsoft.com \
            --from m@perlmeister.com \
            --subject "Where do you want to go today?" \
            bill.txt

This example uses the pipe-in mechanism:

  cat bill.txt | limitmail --to bgates@microsoft.com \
      --from m@perlmeister.com \
      --subject "Where do you want to go today?" \
      bill.txt

LEGALESE

Copyright 2002 by Mike Schilli, all rights reserved. This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

AUTHOR

2001, Mike Schilli <m@perlmeister.com>