>> [Wants a send-to-everyone feature in the local college SM] pl> I can hardly imagine that it is feasible to keep a SM address pl> group synched with a list of ALL students at a university! That's pl> a pretty poor solution for what should be done with list pl> management software instead.
Or, said another way, stop trying to put this more or less impossible task into your sending software (SM), and delegate it instead to your email infrastructure. List management software is one path. Pushing this down to your MTA is another. Paul mentions some dynamically doing a query to get a list of addresses and then ... well, I shudder to think, but I guess you end up sending 5,000 individual messages or 100 messages with 50 addressees or something. Using a query scheme has a lot of creative uses, but it obviously doesn't scale. Not when the answer is "everybody" for large values of "everybody". At that point, it's not creative. If you instead define an email alias in your MTA (sendmail, exim, qmail, or whatever), you need merely address your message to that alias and let your mail plumbing do the fan-out. If it has to do a dynamic query to some directory and build message envelope lists from that, what do you care? That's the job it's taken on. It's also useful whether you use SM or something else. (The MTA can implement restrictions like only allowing certain senders to use the alias.) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (WJCarpenter) PGP 0x91865119 38 95 1B 69 C9 C6 3D 25 73 46 32 04 69 D6 ED F3 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in space? Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7393&alloc_id=16281&op=click -- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting Guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/wiki/wiki.php?MailingListPostingGuidelines List Address: [email protected] List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
