On 8/23/05, Steven W. Orr <steveo@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > I just installed apache, php, mysql, and I don't remember which MTA from the fedora disks. I'll just do a php quickie. I was considering doing it in bask with DCOP, but I have absolutly no experience in bash. I will need to learn it, no doubt, but not today! Thank you all for the many suggestions. Just learning that DCOP exists was worth the trouble I went through today. Dotan Cohen http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/artist_albums/373/newton-john_olivia.php Newton-John, Olivia Song Lyrics
