[clue-tech] local mass emailer

[Keith Hellman]

On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 06:17:00PM -0400, Angelo Bertolli wrote:
> Keith Hellman wrote:
> >On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 05:33:07PM -0400, Angelo Bertolli wrote:
> >>Is there a command/program in Linux for emailing every user on the 
> >>system?  In particular just using cat >> to their mailboxes won't work 
> >>since it should obey .forward too.
> >mail <options> $(cat /etc/passwd |cut -d : -f 1)

Yes.  If your going to have to maintain this, perhaps you should
consider creating a group (gid) for all the users?  Then you can use all
the common nix tools for maintainence and just awk/sed/perl/... the
/etc/group file for the distribution list.

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