Yes, exactly, a distribution list, just as you describe. Thank you. It is a
serious undertaking, a small part of a considerably larger personal
multiyear effort involving thousands of lines of coding. Other than to poor
media such as the New York Times and some financial journals, it only goes
to people who are either in my circle of personal friends or who have made a
specific request for the material. I would not participate in any other
undertaking
I'm surprised to see that there is not a direct facility or resource under
Linux to accommodate this requirement, which must arise countless times. To
the extent possible, I would prefer to avoid reinventing the wheel. For the
moment, I am in fact using Outlook Express, but would like to migrate the
resource to Linux
Thank you, Dave, for pointing my inquiry in the proper direction, and to the
list for suffering all my groping in the dark
David
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave C." <djc@???>
Sent: Monday, August 21, 2000 1:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Exim] Mailing lists
>
>
> I think the problem here is that David is trying to use exim as an MUA
> - trying to have it do what a client such as say Outlook might do with
> an Addressbook entry that had all the email addresses he wanted to send
> to on it. I think this might be called a 'distribution list'
>
> David, a mailing list is something that has a publically available
> email address (of its own), than anyone can send mail to, that then
> re-sends the message to all members of the list. In order for that to
> work you need to either have an internet domain registered with
> nameservers set up properly for the domain, and appropriate records,
> or, if you want to use a subdomain of your ISP, then they need to set
> that up.
>
> It sounds more like you simply want to be able to send a message to
> some list of addresses. A fairly short script could be written which
> did that..
>
> Here is a framework which will need customization but should give you
> an idea:
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> (
> echo "HELO davidturetsky"
> echo "MAIL FROM: <davituretsky@???>"
> for x in `cat file.of.addresses`; do
> echo "RCPT TO: $x"
> done
> echo "DATA"
> echo "From: davidturetsky <davidturetsky@???>"
> echo "Bcc:"
> echo "Subject: whatever..."
> echo ""
> echo " Hi There! This is the message"
> echo " More message lines"
> echo " More message lines"
> echo " More message lines"
> echo " More message lines"
> echo ""
> echo ""
> echo "."
> echo "QUIT"
> ) | exim -bS
>
