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- From: Jeff@digtype.airage.com (Jeff Wasilko)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: Mailing to multiple people without each person seeing a list of all
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 13:57:57 EST
- Organization: Univ of Fnord; Roslyn's Cafe Div.
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- In article <792@cebu.sbi.com> (comp.unix.questions), goldfish@cebu.sbi.com (P. Goldsmith) writes:
- >
- > 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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- The very simplest solution is to mail a copy to yourself, with the
- group of people appearing in the BCC: line.
-
- The recipent only sees his name in the header....
-
- Jeff
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