sending email to all users [was Re: mutt+exim not working]

1999-05-03 Thread Chad A. Adlawan
 
 I don't think that is the case. The trusted user just means that it will
 believe the envelope sender field (Sender:) from those users. You should
 NEVER have to put real users in the trusted user field. You shoudl only
 have something like:
 
 trusted_users = mail:news:uucp:root
 

ow btw, how do u send email to all users in ur system w/o having to type all
their user names ?  i use exim also ...
chad


Re: sending email to all users [was Re: mutt+exim not working]

1999-05-03 Thread Steve Lamb
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On Tue, 4 May 1999 04:04:15 +0800, Chad A. Adlawan wrote:

ow btw, how do u send email to all users in ur system w/o having to type all
their user names ?  i use exim also ...

Subscribe them to an announce-only mailing list that you would run.


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Re: sending email to all users [was Re: mutt+exim not working]

1999-05-03 Thread Carl Mummert
ow btw, how do u send email to all users in ur system w/o having to type all
their user names ?  i use exim also ...
chad

$  edit message_in_file
$  for person in `cat /etc/passwd | awk -F ':' '{if ($3 = 1000) print $1}'` do 
 
mail -s subject here $person  message_in_file;
  done
$ rm message_in_file

Carl


Re: sending email to all users [was Re: mutt+exim not working]

1999-05-03 Thread Chad A. Adlawan
 
 ow btw, how do u send email to all users in ur system w/o having to type all
 their user names ?  i use exim also ...
 
 Subscribe them to an announce-only mailing list that you would run.
 

  i think i remember our sysadmin used to do this, i think what he did was
send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or something of that sort) for really
important announcements and bingo, all users on our.domain.com will get that
email 
  what if i have some really important announcements to make and i have a
hundred++ users, how do i send an email w/ the same content to all of them all
at once w/o typing all their user names ?
TIA,
Chad


Re: sending email to all users [was Re: mutt+exim not working]

1999-05-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
Chad A. Adlawan wrote:
   
   ow btw, how do u send email to all users in ur system w/o having to type 
  all
   their user names ?  i use exim also ...
   
   Subscribe them to an announce-only mailing list that you would run.
   
  
i think i remember our sysadmin used to do this, i think what he did was
  send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or something of that sort) for reall
  y
  important announcements and bingo, all users on our.domain.com will get that
  email 
what if i have some really important announcements to make and i have a
  hundred++ users, how do i send an email w/ the same content to all of them a
  ll
  at once w/o typing all their user names ?

The normal way of doing this is to define an alias (such as  [EMAIL 
PROTECTED]).  In sendmail, the file is /etc/aliases.

I don't know whether it's the same in exim.

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