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Re: bouncing to a bunch of people . . .

2003-03-16 08:40:46
On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 the voices made David W. Tamkin write:

DWT> Louis followed up,
DWT>
DWT> | One question.  Sean, you recommended using a flat file to list the
DWT> | addresses, then use a
DWT> | ! `cat list.txt`
DWT> | mechanism to do the actual forward.  Will procmail care if the file is
DWT> | set up with one address per line?
DWT>
DWT> I'm thinking no, but it will care about unquoted spaces in the middles of
DWT> addresses (such as if you include formal names).  Best thing is to try it 
out
DWT> for yourself.
DWT>
DWT> If it turns out that having newlines between addresses causes a problem, 
you
DWT> can always end every line with <space><backslash> except the last, or to 
make
DWT> it easier to add or remove addresses, have <space><backslash> after every
DWT> address in the file and a blank line at the bottom.

 or just change `cat list.txt` to `cat list.txt | sed 's/$/\\/'`



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