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From: schwartz@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Dwight Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Robust mail redistribution
Message-ID: <1990Oct11.093823.14985@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 11 Oct 90 09:38:23 GMT
References: <1990Oct10.234421.8677@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Sender: Dwight A. Schwartz
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In article <1990Oct10.234421.8677@nntp-server.caltech.edu> doug@seismo.gps.caltech.edu () writes:
>
>What is the proper way to set up a robust mailing list for redistribution of
>mail to multiple people? 
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>My other thought was to create a dummy user "rptnotice" and add the users
>currently in the aliases file in its .forward file.  Will this work, and are
>there better ways of dealing with this situation?

	This second idea works on my Silicon Graphics 4D25 Personal Iris running
Irix 3.2.1, i.e., I have created an imaginary user and added approximately 60 
names (user@FQDN) to this user's .forward file.  I can then send mail to this 
user from anywhere and it get's forwarded to all valid user@host entries in the 
.forward file.  I receive all bounces at the site of message origination 
(not the 'dummy account').  
	A few things about which to be careful:
1) Never send any mail from within the dummy user's account.  If it bounces,
everyone in your mailing list will get a copy of the bounce.
2) Be careful about doing things from that account which might spawn a mail
message from the system.  They too, will (or should) go out to all on the list.
This includes editing a file (if the editing session bombs, etc) and using lp
(and maybe other utilities) with the option enabled which tells the system to 
notify you via mail when your job (or whatever) is finished printing (or 
whatever).
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