Suggestions on One-Time Mailing

Jim Thario jim at thario.net
Thu Dec 18 21:00:39 UTC 2003


Brad Kittredge wrote:
> 
> How about using using aliases?  It works beautifully for smaller lists. 
> I've never used 400, but I can't imagine why it wouldn't work.
> 
> If you have a comma delimited list of addresses, you could just paste
> them into /etc/aliases in this form:
> 
> alias_name: name at address1.com, name at address2.com, ...
> 
> You must run "newaliases" after you edit the file, then just send one
> email to aliases at yourmailhost and all the defined addresses get it.
> 
> man aliases
> 

If you do take this approach, I recommend sending to: your email and 
bcc: to the alias name. This way if anyone does a reply-to-all it won't 
cause a massive reply explosion to everyone on the list.





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