sybn_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Siu-Yan Baldwin Ng) (08/10/90)
Hi everybody, I am looking for a way to send email to a large group of people. I know that I can use "group" in my .mailrc file. However, if I send one single email to like 10 groups of people, each group has 20 people, then they might get a whole page of addresses at the beginning of their message header. To avoid such inconvenience, I hope there is a way to have each person received my email where there is only ONE SINGLE address at the "To:" item in the message header. I really appreciate your help and time. Thanks a bunch!!! Baldwin (sybn_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu OR rochester!ur-cc!sybn_ltd)
kseshadr@quasar.intel.com (Kishore Seshadri) (08/10/90)
In article <8886@ur-cc.UUCP>, sybn_ltd@uhura (Siu-Yan Baldwin Ng) writes: >Hi everybody, > >I am looking for a way to send email to a large group of people. >I know that I can use "group" in my .mailrc file. However, if I send >one single email to like 10 groups of people, each group has 20 people, >then they might get a whole page of addresses at the beginning of their >message header. To avoid such inconvenience, I hope there is a way to >have each person received my email where there is only ONE SINGLE >address at the "To:" item in the message header. > IF you're the sysadmin on your machine, put the alias in the /etc/aliases file (or wherever you put your system aliases). If you're not the sysadmin but he/she trusts you, have them specify an include file for the alias that is editable by you... You can also send mail to yourself and Bcc: to everyone else... Kishore Seshadri ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kishore Seshadri <kseshadr@mipos3.intel.com> or <..!intelca!mipos3!kseshadr> "The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from."
nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) (08/11/90)
In article <2728@inews.intel.com> kseshadr@quasar.intel.com (Kishore Seshadri) writes: >In article <8886@ur-cc.UUCP>, sybn_ltd@uhura (Siu-Yan Baldwin Ng) writes: >>Hi everybody, >> >>I am looking for a way to send email to a large group of people. >>I know that I can use "group" in my .mailrc file. However, if I send >>one single email to like 10 groups of people, each group has 20 people, >>then they might get a whole page of addresses at the beginning of their Beware. Some versions of UUCP have a character limit on the recipient addresses they receive (I don't know the limit, sorry). If you pass off a large mailing list it may send just find, but blow up upon receipt at the next site. I use this as a replacement for uux in my sendmail.cf file. If anyone has a better solution please let me know. #!/usr/local/bin/perl @uuxargs = @ARGV[0..2]; shift(@ARGV); shift(@ARGV); shift(@ARGV); @users = (); $cnt = 0; @msg = <STDIN>; for $u (@ARGV) { push(@users, "'$u'"); if (++$cnt > 15) { &sendit; } } &sendit; exit 0; sub sendit { if ($cnt > 0) { open(PIPE, "|uux @uuxargs @users"); print PIPE @msg; close(PIPE); if ($?) { $err = "uusplit: @users $!\n"; open(FILE, ">/dev/console"); print FILE "$err"; close(FILE); } @users = (); $cnt = 0; } } -- Alphalpha Software, Inc. | motif-request@alphalpha.com nazgul@alphalpha.com |----------------------------------- 617/646-7703 (voice/fax) | Proline BBS: 617/641-3722 I'm not sure which upsets me more; that people are so unwilling to accept responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate everyone else's.