Re: sending mail from commandline to a group

2001-06-19 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Sam Roberts [mutt-users] <19/06/01 12:50 -0400>: > Huh? What will work? mailx? And the man page for mail also > only describes it's use as an interactive mail program, not > for programmatic injection of mail into the mail transfer > system. Do me a favor, try it first. > > suresh@blackehlo:~

Re: sending mail from commandline to a group

2001-06-19 Thread Sam Roberts
Quoting Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, who wrote: > Sam Roberts [mutt-users] <19/06/01 11:51 -0400>: > > Have you tried this, Suresh? > > It says "emulates mailx", and that's it. > > And on my system (RedHat, which is fairly mainstream) mailx > > does not exist. > > So? It'll wor

Re: sending mail from commandline to a group

2001-06-19 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
darren chamberlain [mutt-users] <19/06/01 12:14 -0400>: > If you are running your own mail server, this method is highly > preferable to using mutt aliases. If you aren't running your own > mail server, this gets difficult. s/:your own mail server"/"a unix box running $MTA"/ - that said you a

Re: sending mail from commandline to a group

2001-06-19 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Sam Roberts [mutt-users] <19/06/01 11:51 -0400>: > Have you tried this, Suresh? > It says "emulates mailx", and that's it. > And on my system (RedHat, which is fairly mainstream) mailx > does not exist. So? It'll work. And mailx == /bin/mail, more or less. > to do this programmatically, I'd

Re: sending mail from commandline to a group

2001-06-19 Thread darren chamberlain
Masand, Manish ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something to this effect on 06/19/2001: > i was looking at the /etc/aliases file > > a sample set up would be :- > > > # Alias for distribution list, members specified here: > staff:wnj,mosher,sam,ecc,mckusick,sklower,olson,rwh@ernie > > > so would staf

Re: sending mail from commandline to a group

2001-06-19 Thread Sam Roberts
Quoting Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, who wrote: > Masand, Manish [mutt-users] <19/06/01 17:26 +0200>: > > Thanks for your prompt reply,Suresh. > > how to use mutt -x ..could u pls give an example. > > Thanks a lot. > > man mutt ... please. Have you tried this, Suresh? It s

Re: sending mail from commandline to a group

2001-06-19 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Masand, Manish [mutt-users] <19/06/01 17:38 +0200>: > Oh...sorry about the signature part. > Actually there is no manual entry for mutt, hence... What? Oh well, then search for the mutt documentation - that should be there. > i did a mutt -x , but i specified 2 different mail id's. > I

Re: sending mail from commandline to a group

2001-06-19 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Masand, Manish [mutt-users] <19/06/01 17:26 +0200>: > Thanks for your prompt reply,Suresh. > how to use mutt -x ..could u pls give an example. > Thanks a lot. man mutt ... please. -suresh [and also trim your signature, and most if not all of the reply ...] -- Suresh Ramasubrama

Re: sending mail from commandline to a group

2001-06-19 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Masand, Manish [mutt-users] <19/06/01 17:11 +0200>: > Could anyone pls help me out with this. > I want to fire mutt from commandline so that it mails to a group of people > Basically, something that i can set up in muttrc...for eg > product_users ([EMAIL PROTECTED] , [EMAIL PROTECTED] , .a