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Alan Hodgson (im@witzend.nu)
Fri, 18 Dec 1998 14:03:56 -0800

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On Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 12:01:21PM -0800, Chris Murray wrote:
> Can anybody tell me how I could send a broadcast email to all users on
> my internal mail system without having to make an sendmail alias for
> 600+ users?
>

You could write a small Perl script to send to everyone in the passwd
file, or even just append the message directly to everyone's mailboxes.

Modifying it to exclude system accounts is easy, and then you have
an all-users script that automatically stays current with your user
list.

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