On Fri, 1 Jul 2016, Michael Rasmussen wrote: > 300 messages an hour is one every twelve seconds.
Michael, Yes, I calculated that but for some reason I no longer remember didn't pursue sending the entire list with an appropriate pause between each one. The limit, BTW, applies only to the same message going to different addresses. > You could keep one large list and: > > for ADR in $(cat address_list) > do > cat msg | mailx -S "whateva" $ADR > sleep 14 # leave some breathing room for other emails you might send > done Sigh. That's the most parsimonious solution and I should have seen it myself. Thank you for getting me pointed in the correct direction. > Maintenance of a mail list - that's worse than editing a bunch of files? For me, yes. The files are local, the mail list manager is remote. Many thanks and have happy and safe 4th, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug