From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 1 00:15:02 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA10826 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 00:15:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from c4.joe.to (www.joe.to [207.88.224.251]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA10815 for ; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 00:15:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joe@joe.to) Received: from www.joe.to (www.joe.to [207.88.224.251]) by c4.joe.to (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id AAA13269; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 00:15:00 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 00:15:00 -0800 (PST) From: Joe Lira To: support@wholesalehosting.com cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Remote Newbie In-Reply-To: <36B550441AE.EE3FCROFTON@crofton.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG answer to one of your questions, and one of my own: > - creating alias.yourname.com accounts and if you have user fred, and you want fred to get mail for fsmith and fred_smith, add the following to /etc/aliases # fred aliases fsmith: fred fred_smith: fred or if someone without an account wants to have an alias, add: #external aliases fsmith: fred@realmail.com fred_smith: fred@realmail.com then after either of these, at a prompt type newaliases now i have a question for everyone. i have about 20 users with shell and email accounts. i made an alias like: all_users: joe,john,susan,dave,mark,mike,charlie to send email to all my users. but there's a few problems with this: 1) it doesn't scale well. if i ever have 100+ users, it will be very hard to figure out if someone is not in that alias, and its a lot of overhead hassle to add and subtract names from it manually every time i add or remove a user 2)anyone in the world can spam all my users by sending mail to all_users is there a simpler/better way to send email to all users? thanks joe joe@joe.to www.joe.to To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message