[ale] Bulk Email (sorta)

[James P. Kinney III]

Can you say "Perl"?! This is an ideal use for Perl. Identify a delimiter
separating the bugs in the database. 

foreach $bug (@buglist){
&extract_data;
&mail_notice
}

sub mail_notice{
there are examples of exactly how to send emails from perl in the every
perl book. Basically build a string with the text of your message with
your template
}

sub extract_data{
since you know the general format of the buglist, you can do some splits
and slices to pull out the exact strings you want while assigning them
to the variables for your template. 
This is perls strength.
}

On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 22:00, Michael Golden wrote:
> Hello all,
> 	I have a little thing that I've decided is too much of a pita to do
> manually and I think it would be easy to script but I don't know how to
> do it and wonder if the combined ALE wisdom might be able to help. I've
> taken on the task of going through the gaim bug database of somewhere
> around 150 bugs and contacting the submitters to have them verify that
> it is still active so that we can clean up the database. Problem is that
> it takes a lot of time to make the different messages. I will show you
> what I have to work with:
> 
> My Template Message: (with items to be replaced by script in all caps
> surrounded by underscores)
> 
> To: _SUBMITTER_ at sourceforge.net
> Subject: Gaim Bug Report #_BUG_NUMBER_
> Message:
> Hello,
>         I'm writing to you on behalf of the gaim team. On
> _DATE_SUBMITTED_, you submitted a bug titled "_BUG_TITLE_" We are trying
> to clean up the bug database and I was wondering if you could tell me if
> this problem still appears with the latest version of gaim
> (_LATEST_GAIM_VERSION_) or in the latest CVS. If so, could you please
> email me a report including the version of gaim you are running, what
> you did leading up to the bug, a backtrace if applicable, and any other
> debug information you have. If the problem does not appear in the latest
> version or CVS of gaim please notify me so that we can have it removed.
> 
> Thank you
> -------------
> 
> The list format I have to work with: (In parenthesis is info which is
> supplied but I don't care about)
> 
> _BUG_NUMBER__BUG_TITLE__DATE_SUBMITTED_(time)(assigned to)_SUBMITTER_
> 
> Here is some examples: (space added since evolution wraps lines)
> (Assigned to and Submitter are not separated by a space but there are
> only six possibilities for assigned to: robflynn, warmenhoven, mid,
> chipx86, slogan, nobody)
> 
> 457364yahoo! font plugin issue  2001-08-31 12:30nobodyericding  
> 
> 472168Window placement does not always work  2001-10-17
> 11:23robflynnschneelocke  
> 
> 483790icq authorization  2001-11-20 06:15midaleb
> 
> Basically what I need is for me to be able to feed it the list, it go
> through generate and send emails for all of the ones that have a
> submitter listed so that I don't have to do it manually. Anyone got any
> ideas how to do this? 
> 
> -- 
> Michael Golden <naugrimk at yahoo.com>
> GnuPG Public Key: 1F8BDBDE
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