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From: Michael Slater <slaterm@excel.tnet.com.au>
To: Chris Shenton <chris@absinthe.i3inc.com>
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Subject: Re: Script to send mail to all users?
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How about a line in /etc/aliases that looks like this.

allusers:  :include:/etc/users

with /etc/users being a list of all users on your system.

No special script required, but it does leave users with the ability to send
their own mail to allusers.

Michael Slater
slaterm@tnet.com.au
http://www.tnet.com.au/~slaterm

On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Chris Shenton wrote:

> I'm looking for a script to send mail to all users in my /etc/passwd
> file; anyone got one? I'd rather plagiarize than write from scratch. :-)
> 
> Thanks.
>