Procedure to send mass mailings using spamit

1) Need from customer: message, reply-to, from and list of addressess

2) Go into directory /export/home/kinscoe/mailruns and
make a new subdirectory (i.e. campaign or use a date)

3) All loggins and reports will go in this new directory 
(i.e. /export/home/kinscoe/mailruns/campaign)

4) Create the file tpcmsg.txt in the subdirectory with the message
you want to send.

5) Copy /usr/local/admin/spamit.pl and update the local copy to suite to taste:

$ cp /usr/local/admin/spamit.pl .

$from = "customersupport\@foo.com";
$replyto = "customersupport\@foo.com";
$title = "The Mega Corporation";
$subj = "Reminder";

6) Create the file test.addresses in this directory with the list
of addresses you wish to send to. Modify spamit.sh to use test.addresses 
and not real.addresses.

7) Now test it:

$ ./spamit.pl < test.addresses >> testrun.log

8) Review the run log

$ cat run.log
SpamIt.pl: vers 1.1 starting at Tue Dec  3 14:53:46 2002
SpamIt.pl: vers 1.1 starting at Tue Dec  3 14:55:24 2002
SpamIt complete. 6 messages sent (0 rejected email address out of 6 total).

Tue Dec  3 14:56:28 2002  elapsed time: user: 0.87 secs, system: 0.2 secs

9) Review the mailqueue:

$ mailq
/var/spool/mqueue is empty

10) Send the emails

Create file in the local mailrun directory real.addresses
with the address given to you by the client.

Append the test.addresses to the real.addresses as well so
they get a copy.

$ cat test.addresses >> real.addresses
$ tail -10 real.addresses

and make sure they are there at the end of the file!

Create local spamit.sh script in mailrun subdirectory:

cd /export/home/kinscoe/mailruns/<this run directory>
./spamit.pl < real.addresses >> run.log

Now execute it as an "at" job so you don't have to stay logged in:

$ at -c -f /export/home/kinscoe/mailruns/<this run directory>/spamit.sh now

Output should be similiar to:
commands will be executed using /bin/csh
job 1041962387.a at Tue Jan  7 12:59:47 2003

Repeat steps 6-8 above while it is running.

The run.log file will have any badly formatted addresses.

You can monitor the jobs progress:

$ tail -f /export/home/kinscoe/mailruns/<this run directory>/spamit.log
$ tail -f /export/home/kinscoe/mailruns/<this run directory>/run.log

To find the atjob (as root):

# tail /var/cron/log

>  CMD: 1039649136.a
>  kinscoe 7605 a Wed Dec 11 18:25:37 2002

The spool file will be in /var/spool/cron/atjobs

Example for above:

/var/spool/cron/atjobs/1039649136.a


11) Now the final step: The bounce report:

First copy off the mbox for kinscoe for later anaylsis (5 days later for soft bounces):

$ cp /var/mail/kinscoe kinscoe.mbox

Now zero out the mbox:

$ cp /dev/null /var/mail/kinscoe

As time permits generate the bounce report:

$ cp kinscoe.mbox | /usr/local/admin/whybounced.sh > bounces_for_DDMMYY.txt