From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 12 11:12:51 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id LAA23952 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 11:12:51 -0700 Received: from jd-unix.wpafb.af.mil (jd-unix.wpafb.af.mil [129.52.114.42]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA23947 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 11:12:49 -0700 Received: (from news@localhost) by jd-unix.wpafb.af.mil (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA04881; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 14:10:18 GMT Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 14:10:17 +0000 () From: "Jeffrey D. Dean " To: David Brockus cc: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: Mailing Lists In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 12 Oct 1995, David Brockus wrote: > I am using FreeBSD 2.0.5. I was interested in setting up a way to have > someone email a single address, such as comments@cyberhall.com, then have Sure!!! > that original message distributed to the email addresses of people that I > haved defined. I was wondering if there is a way to send email to a group id > and have the members of that group id receive the letter. I was also > considering setting up a mailing list, but I am not certain what is involved Edit the /etc/aliases file as follows: comments: joey,bob,sam,tim,mary,linda Then type in "newaliases" which will "make" your aliases file work. At that time, when you send a email message to comments@yourhost, joey, bob, sam,tim,etc... will get it. Also you can read the man pages for aliases for more info!!! > in configuring it. Could some please assist me? Thanks. > > > David > > > Jeff -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= - Jeffrey D. Dean SrA - - Computer Technician / Programmer - - Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio - - root@jd-unix.wpafb.af.mil - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=