#!/bin/sh
(
echo "HELO localhost"
echo "MAIL FROM:<the.address@???..non.delivery.reports.will.go.here.too.com>
for x in `/program/to/generate.a.plain.ascii.list.of.email.addresses`; do
echo "RCPT TO:<${x}>"
done
echo "DATA"
echo "From: \"The 'friendly name' you want the message to appear to be from\" <the.corrosponding@???>"
echo "Bcc:" # (this here so no To: header will be inserted.. Its the Right(TM) way to do it)
echo "Subject: as appropriate"
echo ""
cat /file/containing/text.of.the.message.you.want.to.send
echo ""
echo "."
echo "QUIT"
) | exim -bs 2>&1 | tee /file/to/log/exims.output.to.so.you.can.examine.it.in.case.of.errors
--EOF--
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Dave C. wrote:
>
>
>
> On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Yann Golanski wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 11:46:16AM +0000, D.M.Chapman wrote:
> > > We are finally going down the route of an all-staff and an all-student
> > > email list (the acceptability of this can be argued elsewhere - I am
> > > "argued out" :-). We currently have a mojordomo server that we hope to
> > > replace with mailman over the summer. the lists need to be working (for
> > > trials at least) before the Summer vac.
> >
> > How are your students downloading mail? If it is via POP there is a
> > clever trick (tm) you can do -- basicly check if the last time they
> > logged was before the new newsletter and if so, copy it to their
> > maildir.
> >
> > Otherwise, it's a mailman setup I'm afraid.
>
>
> We do some mass mailing to all our customers, but we use neither of
> these approaches. We have the list of email addresses, and I just use
> some scripts to assemble appropriately sized SMTP batches with
> appropriate envelopes and headers that we just pipe into exim -bs
>
> Advantages of this include there being no actual email address that
> forwards to the list, that we then have to protect an outsider from
> sending to, and we don't have to base our POP server choice on
> availablity of the 'bulletin' feature (Nor do our customers HAVE to use
> POP, we also use IMAP, and a few legacy souls use pine).
>
> The only disadvantage is that the PHB that composes the massmail has to
> pass it to an admin for sending rather than being able to send it
> himself. This might also be considered an advantage, depending on how
> you look at it. We could theoretically come up with a WWW/CGI interface
> to permit the PHB to do it directly, but so far it hasnt been enough of
> an issue to warrant that.
>
>
>
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