Suggestions on One-Time Mailing
Brad Kittredge
fedora at mauryisland.com
Thu Dec 18 21:12:51 UTC 2003
On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 13:00, Jim Thario wrote:
> 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.
>
Good point. In my case the replies going to everyone have always been a
*good* thing.
Also, you'd send your bcc to alias_name at yourmailhost instead of
aliases at yourmailhost, as in the example I gave earlier. Doh... Sorry.
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Brad Kittredge <fedora at mauryisland.com>
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