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Article #1546Re: EMAILING TO A LARGE GROUP OF PEOPLE
From: Kee Hinckley
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 1990 15:43
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 1990 15:43
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In article <2728@inews.intel.com> kseshadr@quasar.intel.com (Kishore Seshadri) writes:
>In article <8886@ur-cc.UUCP>, sybn_ltd@uhura (Siu-Yan Baldwin Ng) writes:
>>Hi everybody,
>>
>>I am looking for a way to send email to a large group of people.
>>I know that I can use "group" in my .mailrc file. However, if I send
>>one single email to like 10 groups of people, each group has 20 people,
>>then they might get a whole page of addresses at the beginning of their
Beware. Some versions of UUCP have a character limit on the recipient addresses
they receive (I don't know the limit, sorry). If you pass off a large mailing list
it may send just find, but blow up upon receipt at the next site.
I use this as a replacement for uux in my sendmail.cf file. If anyone has a better
solution please let me know.
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
@uuxargs = @ARGV[0..2];
shift(@ARGV);
shift(@ARGV);
shift(@ARGV);
@users = ();
$cnt = 0;
@msg = <STDIN>;
for $u (@ARGV) {
push(@users, "'$u'");
if (++$cnt > 15) {
&sendit;
}
}
&sendit;
exit 0;
sub sendit {
if ($cnt > 0) {
open(PIPE, "|uux @uuxargs @users");
print PIPE @msg;
close(PIPE);
if ($?) {
$err = "uusplit: @users $!\n";
open(FILE, ">/dev/console");
print FILE "$err";
close(FILE);
}
@users = ();
$cnt = 0;
}
}
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!snorkelwacker!spdcc!tauxersvilli!alphalpha!nazgul From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: EMAILING TO A LARGE GROUP OF PEOPLE Message-ID: <1990Aug11.154359.22431@alphalpha.com> Date: 11 Aug 90 15:43:59 GMT References: <8886@ur-cc.UUCP> <2728@inews.intel.com> Organization: asi Lines: 60