On Tuesday, Aug 23rd 2005 at 13:39 +0300, quoth Dotan Cohen:
=>Hi all. I have to send the exact asme email to 16 people, with each
=>one thinking that he is the only recipricant. Until now, i had been
=>opening new windows in kmail and copying-pasting the text into each
=>one! But I think that I need mailing list software. Googleing for
=>"mailing list software linux" gives me 23 million linux mailing lists,
=>but no software! Is there a 'standard' mailing list program that I
=>should know about? I don't have a webserver installed on this machine,
=>though if that is nessaccary I would not mind installing one. It is a
=>AMD 1.2 ghz box with KDE on FC4. Thanks!
Hi, I just read the question and all of the answers to date and I have to
make a few comments.
1. Majordomo is extremely old and has not seen a single keystroke of
support in excess of 9 odd years. It is still in wide use but it is very
primitive.
2. The mailinglist that is distributed by Fedora and other disrtos is
Mailman. Both ubiquitous and not a bad implementation.
3. What I use for my lists is Majordomo2. MJ2, as we afficienadoes like to
call it is hugely superior. It is an object oriented design and interface
written in perl. The fine controls that it supplies totally blows Mailman
out of the water.
4. If you do run a mailinglist and you don't have access to a webserver
then you should set up a webserver. It's not hard and having a list
manager without a web interface is just dumb.
And last, it's not clear that a list manager is not overkill to send a
message to 16 people.
for ii in $(< listaddrs)
do
mail -s "Bwahaha" $ii <<EOF
Here's my important message that only you have received.
EOF
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