[ale] Bulk Email (sorta)

[Michael Golden]

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
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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>
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