* Jiang Qian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070925 00:21]: > > For a few dozen recipients or less, place all the recipient addresses > > (comma-delimited) on the BCC: line, and place your own address on the > > TO: line. > > > > About a year ago, I had need to make a periodic mailing to a few > > hundred email addresses. I tried several approaches, but I did not > > find a satisfactory open-source package. > Maybe I'm missing something obvious here, but what's wrong with having > an alias file of this kind of content and the source it on .muttrc: > > alias mailinglist1 New List \ > <email address 1>,\ > <email address 2>,\ > . > . > . > <email address n>,\ > <my own address> > > I'm sure we can write some kind of poor man's python script or > shell/sed/awk script to add or remove address from this. You can then > invoke this on the BCC field. > > Is this some sort of a performance problem? If so, that's not the fault > of mutt but of $sendmail you're using, since that's what's handling it. > But I serious doubt that a few hundred email can choke, say, postfix on > a decently powerful machine. > > Let me know what I'm missing here. > Jiang
Hi, Jiang. I likely am the one who missed something obvious. Thanks for the solution; I'll file it for future reference. Performance should be no problem unless the message count gets into the thousands (in which case the message likely is spam). RLH
