Bash script to automate sending email from Mail.app using AppleScript. (For debugging)

randmail.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Generate a random text email and send it to test@example.com
# Used for testing email apps when you need a lot of messages in a test account.

# Configure the script in this section.
NUMBER_OF_MESSAGES=10
WORDS_IN_MESSAGE=10
RECIPIENT=test@example.com

WORDFILE=/usr/share/dict/words

# using cat means wc outputs only a number, not number followed by filename
LINECOUNT=$(cat $WORDFILE  | wc -l);

until [ $NUMBER_OF_MESSAGES -lt 1 ]; do
	let NUMBER_OF_MESSAGES-=1
	MESSAGE_WORDS=""

	# Get random line numbers in the word file.
	RANDOM_NUMBER_LIST=`jot -w %d -n -r -p 1 $WORDS_IN_MESSAGE 1 $LINECOUNT`
	echo $RANDOM_NUMBER_LIST

	for RANDWORDINDEX in $RANDOM_NUMBER_LIST
	do
		MESSAGE_WORDS="$MESSAGE_WORDS `sed -n "$RANDWORDINDEX p" $WORDFILE;`"
	done
	echo Words: $MESSAGE_WORDS

	subjectRand=`jot -w %d -n -r -p 1 1 1 $LINECOUNT`
	SUBJECT=`sed -n "$subjectRand p" $WORDFILE;`
	echo Subject: $SUBJECT

	osascript -e "
	tell application \"Mail\"
		set newMessage to make new outgoing message with properties {visible:true, subject:\"Random: $SUBJECT\", content:\"$MESSAGE_WORDS\"}
		tell newMessage to make new to recipient at end of every to recipient with properties {address:\"$RECIPIENT\"}
		send newMessage
	end tell
	"

	sleep 2
done