hi ya petre
if you create the [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...than everybody
else can also send out spam to all the 700 accounts
- you probably wanna use a moderated mailing list
so that only authorized people can send out emails
to everybody
"simple" way is all relative to the way you wanna do things
- no script is needed ... for this "email everybody monster"
c ya
alvin
To extract the current list of users
cat /etc/passwd | cut -d : -f 1 > /home/broadcaster/everybody.lst
take out things like root, bin, nobody and other system accounts
to make the majordomo file or mailman or your fav ML manager
/home/majordomo/Lists/everybody
and configure it as closed and moderated
and even passwd protected
to broadcast ... uncomment the alias...
vi /etc/aliases
...
everybody: :include:/home/broadcaster/everybody.lst
...
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Christoph Simon wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 03:55:41 -0800
> Petre Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Ok,this may sound a bit twisted but i dont know very well shell scripting
> > and i have the following problem:
> > i have around 700 accounts on my school server and i want to send email to
> > everyone of them from time to time with news related to the school and
> > stuff..
> > I thought i can make an account and put in its homedir .forward file all
> > the addresses
> > I need a script that if run,checks all /home accounts and put them like
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the .forward of my email-broadcast-account.
> > Or is there another simple way?
> > Thx.
>
> Edit a copy of the password file.
>
