On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 09:14:03PM +0100, richard lucassen wrote: > On Sun, 03 Jan 2010 19:57:41 +0000 > Mark Goodge <m...@good-stuff.co.uk> wrote: > > > > I want to send once a week a simple mail to a list of 3000 > > > recipients. I can set smtpd_recipient_limit and > > > smtpd_recipient_overshoot_limit to higher limits, but is there a > > > better way to handle this? > > > > Yes. Install a proper mailing list management system, such as Mailman > > or majordomo. 3000 recipients is waaaaaaay too many to do in a single > > shot using Bcc. > > Ok, but a mlm is quite some overkill IMHO, just wondering if there was > an intermediate solution. This is for a blind person who handles the > "mailinglist" himself, so solutions are rather limited. > > But anyway, I can always write a small shell script that does the job. > Should not be a very big problem. > > R. >
What about using an aliases entry to read the addresses from a file: mylist: :include:/file/name mylist-owner: listowner Then the user just needs permission to update the file and mail to mylist will be broken out to the addresses in /file/name. Regards, Ken
