Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 17:49:17 -0400 (EDT) From: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" <marcus@miami.edu> To: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@turkey.ispro.net.tr> Cc: Shane Cole <shane.cole@staff.paradise.net.nz>, Jason McKay <jasonm@barney.webace.com.au>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sending Mail to All Users Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.02A.9808301747560.13336-100000@jaguar.ir.miami.edu> In-Reply-To: <35E9C63E.24377BF@turkey.ispro.net.tr>
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This is an office setup and they wanted an alis so they could send email quickly to everyone without having to worry if their Netscape address books were up to date. It works for them, and, yes, in other situations, I can see how having a permanent alias for sending everyone email could be a problem. Joe Clarke On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > what if somebody send email to your everyone user??? > all users see it? is not it a problem if somebody does that? > > Joe "Marcus" Clarke wrote: > > > I've done something a little different. I modified rmuser and adduser to > > add and delete new/old users to/from a .forward file. This .forward file > > belongs to a user "everyone." To send mail to "All Active Users" people > > just send mail to everyone. If you want, I'll forward the modified files > > from a 2.2.6-RELEASE machine. > > > > Joe Clarke > > > > On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Shane Cole wrote: > > > > > What I do is add > > > > > > all.users: :include:/etc/ftpchroot > > > > > > to my /etc/aliases file and then mail to that (commenting it out once it has > > > finished). With the way I run my system, /etc/ftpchroot has a copy of all > > > the usernames that are in /etc/passwd though. > > > > > > Regards > > > Shane > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG > > > > [mailto:owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Jason McKay > > > > Sent: Sunday, 30 August 1998 21:51 > > > > To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > > > Cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG > > > > Subject: Sending Mail to All Users > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > I urgently need to send a message to all users on my FreeBSD system. I > > > > understand there is a way using aliases, and a script that makes up a > > > > listing of all users. > > > > > > > > How do I setup this up? > > > > > > > > Thanking in advance, > > > > Jason McKay. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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