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[Dexter-Al Eugenio]

thanks, but i'm looking for another alternative besides aliasing. some say
its configurable on the POP daemon or something, they call it bulletin,
i'm searching for that stuff. besides its very tedious to input all the
users for an alias. :)

dex

On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Will Mc Donald wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
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