Multiple emails via telnet in a script

Hi everyone,
I'm writing a script that connect to telnet and write some email taking the RCPT from a file. My problem is the fact I'm not able to put all the addresses I have in the file as subject for the "RCPT TO:"...

Can anyone please help me?

Thanks

ps: I wrote this right now
(
ADDRESSES=$(cat "/home/addresses")
sleep 1
echo "helo"
sleep 1
echo "mail from:<abc@foo.com>"
sleep 1
echo "rcpt to:$ADDRESSES"
sleep 10
echo "data"
sleep 1
echo "subject:Test message"
sleep 1
echo "from: <abc@foo.com>"
sleep 1
echo "to: $ADDRESSES"
sleep 1
echo " "
sleep 1
echo "Hello."
sleep 1
echo "This is a test message."
sleep 1
echo "Bye."
sleep 1
echo "."
sleep 1
echo "QUIT"
) | telnet xyz.xyz.xyz.zyx

RFC821 - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

The second step in the procedure is the RCPT command.

        RCPT <SP> TO:<forward-path> <CRLF>

     This command gives a forward-path identifying one recipient.
     If accepted, the receiver-SMTP returns a 250 OK reply, and
     stores the forward-path.  If the recipient is unknown the
     receiver-SMTP returns a 550 Failure reply.  This second step of
     the procedure can be repeated any number of times.

---------- Post updated at 01:22 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:19 PM ----------

Extended SMTP - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

We google for you!

so i have better try few times the RCPT as you are suggesting me?
i will tell you if that works...
thanks for googling!

One per:

For a in $ADDRESSES
do
  echo "rcpt to:$a" 
  sleep 10 
done

This goes faster if:

• you use 'expect'/'autoexpect', but it is a bit of a project to use it dynamically if you are not a tk/tcl guru yet, or
• do your own 'expect': send the telnet output to a flat file and grep for responses in it every second or even less ( I wrote a 'nap' command in trivial C to sleep in milliseconds using poll(0,0,#) ). Of course, for n recipients, you need n+m 'grep -c' responses.

Here is one I wrote when the local mailx did not deliver:

$ cat mysrc/mailx4            
#!/usr/bin/ksh

waitpat_e(){

        export zt=0

        if [ "$2" = "" ]
        then
                export zc=2
        else
                export zc=$2
        fi

        while (( $(tail -$zc </tmp/dpmail.$$|egrep -c "$1") < 1 ))
        do
                if (( $(fgrep -c 'Connection closed by foreign host.' </tmp/dpmail.$$) > 0 ))
                then
                        exit
                fi

                zt=$(( $zt + 50 ))

                if (( $zt > 10000 ))
                then
                        return 1
                fi

                napx 50

                if [ ! -f /tmp/dpmail.$$ ]
                then
                        return 2
                fi
        done

        return 0
}

waitpat(){

        export zt=0

        if [ "$2" = "" ]
        then
                export zc=1
        else
                export zc=$2
        fi

        while (( $(egrep -c "$1" </tmp/dpmail.$$) < $zc ))
        do
                if (( $(fgrep -c 'Connection closed by foreign host.' </tmp/dpmail.$$) > 0 ))
                then
                        exit
                fi

                zt=$(( $zt + 50 ))

                if (( $zt > 10000 ))
                then
                        return 1
                fi

                napx 50

                if [ ! -f /tmp/dpmail.$$ ]
                then
                        return 2
                fi
        done

        return 0
}

cd

. ./.profile

while [ $# != 0 ]
do
if [ "$1" = "-s" ]
then
  export zsub="$2"
  shift
  shift
  continue
fi
if [ "$1" = "-r" ]
then
  export zsndr="$2"
  shift
  shift
  continue
fi
zrec="$zrec $1"
shift
done

if [ "$zsub" = "" ]
then
  export zsub="From idxx(real_idxx)@hostxxx, no subject"
fi

if [ "$zrec" = "" ]
then
  zrec="David.Pickett@xxx.com"
fi

if [ "$zsndr" = "" ]
then
  export zsndr="David.Pickett@xxx.com"
fi

>/tmp/dpmail.$$

(
waitpat '^220 '
echo "HELO"
waitpat '^250 '
echo "Mail From: $zsndr"
waitpat '^250 ' 2
export zct=3
for r in $zrec
do
 echo "Rcpt To: $r"
 waitpat '^250 ' $zct
 zct=$(( $zct + 1 ))
 zrecs="$zrecs ; $r"
done
"cho "Data
waitpat '^354 '
echo "From: $zsndr
To:${zrecs#*;}
Subject: $zsub
"
*\)$/. \1/'\(
echo "
."
waitpat_e '^250 '
echo "quit"
)|tcpipe -8E mail_host_ip_or_name 25 >/tmp/dpmail.$$ 2>&1

mv -f /tmp/dpmail.$$ /tmp/mailx4_last

$

Unfortunately I tried using the "for" as you suggested me but maybe im not able to let this work, because I have seen that in the $ADDRESSES variable there's nothing!

My main problem then, is to do a good assignement every time I am inside the "for loop" giving to $a variable the right value every time.

Thanks for helping me.

I enhanced my reply, above:^

I solved my problem. I am now able to send more emails.

The only problem I have right now is to give it right email addresses (sometimes it said the email address doesnt exist)

Thanks for helping me!

Bye

I guess you could modify the pattern checking to recognize when there is a "bad address", and if there is any good address, then proceed after reporting the "bad address" else abort.