isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ken Hancock) (07/27/90)
I now have a 100+ name distribution list which I need to send mail to. Unfortunately, Berkeley mail and ELM seem to choke if I try to alias something that big. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I'm supposed to send to this list? Thanks -- Ken -- Ken Hancock | This account needs a new home in MA... Isle Systems | Can you provide a link for it? isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu | It doesn't bite... :-)
kseshadr@quasar.intel.com (Kishore Seshadri) (07/30/90)
In article <23393@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>, isle@eleazar (Ken Hancock) writes: >I now have a 100+ name distribution list which I need to send mail to. >Unfortunately, Berkeley mail and ELM seem to choke if I try to alias >something that big. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how >I'm supposed to send to this list? > Try splitting this into several aliases and then having an alias for all the aliases. I think what you've run into is not a limitation of mail, but a limitation of dbm... Kishore Seshadri kishore@mipos3.intel.com =============================================================================== Kishore Seshadri (Speaking for myself) Intel Corp., Santa Clara, CA CSNET: kseshadr@mipos3.intel.com ARPA: kseshadr%mipos3.intel.com@relay.cs.net UUCP:{amdcad,decwrl,hplabs,oliveb,pur-ee,qantel}!intelca!mipos3!kseshadr
datri@convex.com (Anthony A. Datri) (07/31/90)
>In article <23393@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>, isle@eleazar (Ken Hancock) writes: >>I now have a 100+ name distribution list which I need to send mail to. >>Unfortunately, Berkeley mail and ELM seem to choke if I try to alias Use an include: foofans: :include:/some/dir/foofansfile have the addresses in foofansfile, one to a line. --
hickeyd@ul.ie (11/06/90)
Many of our users are subscribing to mailing lists, and in order to avoid duplication ie: more than 1 user subscribing to the same list; I would like to set up a type of 'Mail server' to run locally on our Vax , to which the local users would subscribe. This 'mail server' would then check to see if the mailing list was already being subscribed to, and if so would add the user to a list kept locally. If not , it should then subscribe to the list. It should be as 'automated' as possible. I have envisaged using the 'Deliver package' (part of PMDF), but if anyone has any other suggestions, I would welcome them. We are using Pmdf to send/receive external email, on our Vax8530 with VMS 5.3-1. Thanks Denis ******************************************************************************* Denis Hickey ITD University of Limerick Tel: 061-333644 x2365 Email: hickeyd@ul.ie *******************************************************************************
waugh@rtpnet05.rtp.dg.com (Matthew Waugh) (04/10/91)
Two questions:
1. Could somebody point me to a mailing list handling package for
sendmail on UNIX that deals with taking the message and exploding
it onto the list, adding all the appropriate headers etc.
2. What's the "correct" format for mailing list archives made available
by anonymous ftp? Should it be one message per file, or one big
file or something else? Whatever the consensus is I'd appreciate
pointers to software for UNIX that handles that situation.
Thanks Mat
Matthew Waugh waugh@dg-rtp.dg.com
RTP Network Services {world}!mcnc!rti!dg-rtp!waugh
Data General Corp.
RTP, NC. (919)-248-6344emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti) (04/11/91)
In article <1991Apr10.125140.7442@dg-rtp.dg.com> waugh@rtpnet05.rtp.dg.com (Matthew Waugh) writes:
2. What's the "correct" format for mailing list archives made available
by anonymous ftp? Should it be one message per file, or one big
file or something else? Whatever the consensus is I'd appreciate
pointers to software for UNIX that handles that situation.
Depends on the volume of the list. For many lists, one file per month
in tar format, with an author/subject index in a separate file, would
be more than enough. Other lists might be better to be one file per
year.
On a more experimental note you could look at the stuff on
ftp.cs.toronto.edu:/indexed-archives/
which makes provisions for putting a full-text index onto each month's
collection.
--Ed