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RE: Forwarding?

1998-10-19 06:11:47
Hey you said :that's not terribly efficient, nor terribly safe;

Why it is not efficient?
Why it is not terribly safe?

BTW .. I know most of you are saying to use a mailing list manager ... I
know I know I know, but I'm doing this on my own for the fun of it. And
if it works... why not?

Eric



    #!/bin/sh
    tmp=/tmp/`basename $0`.$$; trap "rm -rf $tmp" 0
    umask 077; mkdir $tmp || exit 1
    cat >$tmp/message
    (echo '#!/bin/sh';echo '/usr/lib/sendmail "$@" <'$tmp/message)
$tmp/sender
    chmod 755 $tmp/sender
    xargs $tmp/sender <addrss.txt

There's lots of ways to do it; that's just the first that leaps to mind.
But
that's not terribly efficient, nor terribly safe; if you are dealing
with a
big enough mailing list to break shell backtick expansion, then you
probably
ought to be using a serious mailing list manager. These include ezmlm,
smartlist, majordomo, and I'm sure many many others.

-Bennett

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