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From: lm@snafu.Sun.COM (Larry McVoy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: REVISED:  How do I send e-mail to lots of users at a remote unix site?
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Date: 31 May 90 19:59:39 GMT
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In article <900531093547.30e0dca3@Csa2.LBL.Gov> thermal%solgel.hepnet@CSA2.LBL.GOV writes:
>I would like to be able to send a mail message to all the users on
>ANOTHER unix machine via Internet.  Of course, I could do it the long
>and tedious way, that is, by sending a mail message to each user, one
>at a time.  Is there a quicker way? (it seems to me there could be two
>or three different ways, such as setting up a mailing list file on my
>machine which will automatically mail the message to all on the list,
>or sending one message to the remote machine and somehow instruct it
>to distribute the message to all the users).  Obviously, I'm not a
>unix guru or wizard, so make your explanation understandable, please.

You'll have to get cooperation from the remote machine.  Let's assume that
you are mailing to a remote machine that runs sendmail.  Then you can
get the remote admin to edit /etc/aliases and add a line like:

kernel: lm,auspex!guy,shannon,limes,glenn,dave@cs.wisc.edu

Then if you mail kernel@remote.host.whatever the message will be exploded
on remote.host.whatever instead of the local host.  

You may need to run "newaliases" which massages the alias file into a 
database that sendmail uses.

If you are sending to a remote host that doesn't run sendmail or any other 
mailer that provides an aliasing service then I don't know what you can
do.

This message is more appropriate for comp.unix.questions so I've directed 
follow ups there.
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Larry McVoy, Sun Microsystems     (415) 336-7627       ...!sun!lm or lm@sun.com