Mass email via bash script using imap
 

I need to send a large number of emails for a survey. The origin should be from my work imap email. (This is not spam really!) I have seen a few suggestions on the internet such as mailx and mutt. It looks like mailx may be the better option.

I would appreciate it if someone could show me an example of how to send an email mailx with password authentication.

Regards,
Stefan

You can't send email via IMAP. that's for receiving from a server, not sending out. You send with an SMTP service.

Thanks for the clarification. I was under the impression that just using 'mail' was not sufficient due to the authentication issues. This account uses starttls for authentication.