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[Will Mc Donald]

I don't know if there's a preferred way of doing this but we use an alias to
all users in /etc/aliases. Create a mailing group alias called 'all' and
then add any group aliases already defined and any individuals that aren't
already included in any groups.

So you'd have something like...

    ###################
    # Mailing list aliases  #
    ###################

    manag-group:    managera at domain.blah, manager2 at domain.blah
    devel-group:    developera at domain.blah, developer2 at domain.blah

    all:    manag-group, devel-group, usera, userb

Where usera and b haven't been included in any groups. Once you've added the
appropriate entries run 'newaliases' and that should do it.

Maybe someone else has a better suggestion though, if all you want to do is
alert all usrs on a system you could use 'wall' or 'rwall' but I suspect you
probably want to notify all mail users rather that all system users no?

Will Mc Donald - newbie.

----- Original Message -----
From: Dexter-Al Eugenio <dex at sun.com.ph>
To: SunHELP Mailing List (E-mail) <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 8:08 AM
Subject: [Sunhelp] mail


> hello,
>
> is there a software or configuration on which i can edit a file which
> will send to all the users on the system. sort of an announcement. does
> POP or IMAP related software do the trick? or do i have to do something on
> the sendmail.cf file.
>
> thanks.
>
>
> dex