Email in Ksh using elm

Shell Programming and Scripting
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I have a txt file which contains the following details.

email address date other
email address date other

from this i want to take each email address and send mail with a message and put the date in the message ( in some specific place ).

need to send mails one by one marking a copy to myself.

please help

The script is given below what i have developed. But this will only let me send the mail to all the people in the same time.

i belive a for loop can do this for me. Please help me.

TXTFILEFR="a.out"
TXTSIGN="signature2.txt"

DIRECTO="/opt/var/"
SQLDIRECTO="/opt/var/so"
SUBJECT="Your attachment"
A="a.b@log.com"
export ORACLE_SID=sid

for user in $(cut -d: -f3 a.out)
do
echo $user
echo "Hello, \n" > ${DIRECTO}/mail.out

echo "\n message1.\n" >> ${DIRECTO}/mail.out
echo "\message2.:\n" >> ${DIRECTO}/mail.out
echo "\n mesg3.:\n" >> ${DIRECTO}/mail.out

cat ${DIRECTO}/${TXTSIGN}>> ${DIRECTO}/mail.out
${DIRECTO}/mail.out

elm -s " subject line " -b $user < ${DIRECTO}/mail.out

done

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>> But this will only let me send the mail to all the people in the same time.

hmm, I dont get you, do you intend to send the mail with different time stamps ?
or do you intend to use the date field from the text file to be part of the email body ?

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What i am trying to do is to send mail to all the email addresses in the text file at the same time. But i want to put all the email addresses in the bcc field so that the people do not see each others addresses.