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[Christopher J Ceska]

qpopper has this functionality built in.  since it is the ONLY pop daemon
that doesnt suck, I suggest reading about it.

-chris


On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 04:07:58PM +0800, Dexter-Al Eugenio wrote:
> 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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Christopher J Ceska                                         chris at apk.net
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