<quote who="WJCarpenter"> > 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.)
I agree that an email alias is a better way of doing this task. That being said, don't you still have to keep the alias updated? Here is one method to do so I found in the Sendmail FAQ: http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section4.html#4.21 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Q4.21 -- How can I send mail to all users? Date: December 12, 2000 There is no magic short-cut for this. But it is not hard to set up: create an aliases entry alluser: :include:/etc/mail/allusers Don't forget to run 'newaliases'. Then list your users, one per line, in the file '/etc/mail/allusers'. You might be able to do that with awk -F: '$3 > 100 { print $1 }' /etc/passwd > /etc/mail/allusers --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Create a cron job to do that on a nightly basis and you are set. I think. lol ------------------------------------------------------- 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
