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shell script using mailx or sendmail for multiple receiver ?

 
Matthew_50
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shell script using mailx or sendmail for multiple receiver ?

Is there any sample script for deliver messages to multiple reciver using ksh ?

Thank you.
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Dennis Handly
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Re: shell script using mailx or sendmail for multiple receiver ?

If you have a file with your message:
mailx -s "subject of message" user1@foo user2@foo < message-text-file
Bill Hassell
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Re: shell script using mailx or sendmail for multiple receiver ?

And for large mailing lists, you can create a alias in /etc/mail/aliases with dozens of addresses:

biglist : me@com1.org, you@them.biz, us@abc.com

and for multiple lines, continue the line with a trailing \. Then run the command newaliases to update sendmail.

Now you can use mailx like this:

mailx -s "some subject" biglist < text-to-email


Bill Hassell, sysadmin
Elmar P. Kolkman
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Re: shell script using mailx or sendmail for multiple receiver ?

According to the man page of mailx, you can even define groups/aliases in your own '.mailrc' file.
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