getting xargs and mail to play nicely

[Peter King]

I want to do a (legitimate!) mailing of a single message to several
recipients, and I'd like each to be the sole recipient specified in
the email -- so no multiple addresses, cc, bcc, or suchlike. I have
the recipients' addresses in a single text file, with one address per
line in the file.

How can I do a "mass mailing"?

Why xargs, I thought, just grep through the address file and feed it
to mail, and redirect the message:

    % grep @ addressfile | xargs -n1 mail -s SUBJECT < messagefile

But this doesn't work: mail tries to take addresses from messagefile,
not from addressfile. If I leave off the messagefile, then I send nice
cheerful null emails to each person listed in addressfile.

What am I missing here? Sorry to be clueless!

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Department of Philosophy
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Toronto, ON  M5S 1A1
       CANADA

http://individual.utoronto.ca/pking/

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