On Fri, 11 Jul 1997, Alan V. Shackelford wrote:
Era was kind enough to recommend the following rc entry to remail messages
to members of a list:
:0
* ^Subject:.*something unique here
! `cat file-of-recipients`
where the process is kicked off by the existence of something unique in
the subject line, and the list members are listed in a file called
file-of-recipients. I put it into place, and the thing tested fine. So, I
moved the real list (just over 100 addresses) into a file, and turned it
on
. I get the following error message when I post to the list:
"Excess input quenched from 'cat' "
It shows in the log that I processed the first two addresses, then
stopped.
My member file has the format :
username1(_at_)domain1(_dot_)ext
username2(_at_)domain2(_dot_)ext
,etc. Do you think I need the little |\ at the end of each line?
:0
* ^Subject:.*something unique here
! `cat -s file-of-recipients`
Try the above, I use it quite a bit.
For a mailing list, you can also look for unique names in the To: field.
I use this also for mailing lists.
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* ^To:.*Yourlistname <you(_at_)yourdomain(_dot_)com>
! `cat -s file-of-recipients`
Regards,
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