sascmc@unx.sas.com (Christopher Mark Conn) (05/11/91)
I have a home-made mailing list (the Dead Runners Society, drop me a line of you're interested) that I run like this: I receive mail from members and then do an 'r' to reply. Then I put my address on the To: line and put an alias for my members on the Bcc: line. The reason I do this is so that they won't get a list of 75 names every time they get a message. It works pretty well, but I would like to find a way to put the address of the person receiving the message on the To: line without all of the other names. Any ideas? I don't have any kind of root access so this has to be something that a normal guy can do. Thanks, -- Christopher Mark Conn | Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, sascmc@unx.sas.com | to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere Dead Runners Society | else, you must run at least twice as fast as that! Austin, Texas | - Lewis Carroll
rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) (05/13/91)
In article <1991May10.195743.14467@unx.sas.com> sascmc@unx.sas.com (Christopher Mark Conn) writes: >I have a home-made mailing list (the Dead Runners Society, >drop me a line of you're interested) that I run like this: > >I receive mail from members and then do an 'r' to reply. >Then I put my address on the To: line and put an alias for >my members on the Bcc: line. The reason I do this is so that >they won't get a list of 75 names every time they get a message. >It works pretty well, but I would like to find a way to put >the address of the person receiving the message on the To: line >without all of the other names. Any ideas? I don't have any kind of >root access so this has to be something that a normal guy can do. Yes. It is real easy. All you have to do is send out 75 different replies, with a different 'To:' line on each. I know. That wasn't what you had in mind. There really isn't much else you can do, though. You can automate this. Assuming for the moment that you are using /usr/ucb/Mail, you can have a functional argument: |/path/command which is fed the mail as standard input. Make this command a shell script to create the 75 different messages. Then again, maybe what you are already doing is better. -- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science <rickert@cs.niu.edu> Northern Illinois Univ. DeKalb, IL 60115 +1-815-753-6940