Email to list of addresses from a file

Does anyone know if it is possible to create an Automation that will send the same email to every email address listed in a text file?
I am working on a local community event and have several people registered. Periodically I need to email out a short sentence or two to each person on this list. In the past, I have simply copied the addresses in my file and pasted them into the Bcc line with my own address in the To line. As Spam filters get better, this type of address scheme is often rejected.
It would be better to send a separate email to each person by picking the email address from a file, line at a time, and sending the canned message.
It was not obvious to me how to approach this with Automator.
Perhaps Automater is not the correct choice - maybe I need to use a shell script or Perl and interact directly with sendmail?
Thanks

If you're using Mail, you can just send everyone the email by putting their address in the BCC header; you should be able to leave the To header blank. Spam filters are almost alway examing the origin and the subject of the email, and some even examine the body.
So, unless one of those fields is questionable according to the spam filters, your mail should pass through uninterrupted, since filters have no way of knowing whether you sent an email via BCC; they see only the address to where a single email is being delivered.
More likely is that one or more of your recipients hasn't marked your email address as "okay" or put it on a whitelist, so it may get put into a junk or spam folder on their system.
Hope this helps,
Mulder
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