jow@PacBell.COM (Jeff Westman) (01/04/90)
I want to use mailx to send the same note to about 100 people. When I use the "To: person_A person_B person_C" method, everyone gets a copy a page long of who the message is being sent to. Is there a way to suppress this long list to perhaps only the recipient?? I wrote a short script (a loop) to mail to one person at-a-time that did the "trick", but obviously, this is very expensive, resource-wise. Anybody have any suggestions?? Thanks in advance. - Jeff
jow@PacBell.COM (Jeff Westman) (01/12/90)
Due to the large number of answers and requests for a "posting-recap", I
am posting a SHORT summary of what I received.
This is what people said:
(1) If you have "sendmail" (we don't) - use it. This *IS* the ideal.
(2) You could use 'bcc' (~b). This is good, as long as you address to
at least one person and bcc the rest. The only problem with this
is that mailx (probably mail, elm also) puts an incredible load on
the operating system. Mailx does a lot of I/O swapping and resource
"hogging", hence bringing, the system (at least ours) to it's knees
(almost). I suppose if one were only sending to a couple dozen people
(at most), this wouldn't be too bad. MY PROBLEM is that I am sending
to about 100 people, most of which are outside Unix, which means I will
be also tying up the lines to other systems not to mention blowing-up
the spool buffer.
My solution was to send to another system that has sendmail under an alias,
of which the remote system does the mailing for me.
In summary, if you have sendmail, use it. If you are going to be sending to
LOTS of people, you should first check with your System Administrator.
- Jeff