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- From: goldfish@cebu.sbi.com (P. Goldsmith)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: Mailing to multiple people without each person seeing a list of all
- Keywords: elm, mail
- Message-ID: <792@cebu.sbi.com>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 19:18:02 GMT
- References: <BzLLLo.KxF@unix.amherst.edu> <15391@hq.hq.af.mil>
- Organization: Salomon Brothers, Inc
- Lines: 18
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- In article <15391@hq.hq.af.mil> lpeters@marge.hq.af.mil writes:
- >In article <BzLLLo.KxF@unix.amherst.edu>, rjyanco@unix.amherst.edu (Richard J. Yanco) writes:
- >|> I send a daily mailing out to approximately 10 people from my account.
- >|> If I have the names in a file foo.bar, is there any way to send a message
- >|> to each person in the list, *independently*, with a single command?
- >
- >I would try:
- >
- >for i in `cat foo.bar`; do <mail package> -s "Subj" $i < message; done
-
- Once you are using ELM, use the "fastmail" program provided with elm. It is
- thoroughly documented and does exactly what you want. (RTFM, they even give
- an example ...)
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