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Subject: Re: one to many ??
From: "D. Liston" <dliston @ netscape . com>
Organization: iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions, A Sun Netscape Alliance
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 04:50:50 -0600
To: Christopher James <chris @ hitsquad . com>
Cc: majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com
References: <3.0.32.20010205163739.0072eb14@imail.hitsquad.com>

I'm not sure, but I think you are asking if you can make majordomo send a 
message to all your lists without having to send a separate email to each
list.  Is that right?

Yes, this can be done, but you run the risk of some people getting multiple
copies of the message if they are subscribed to more than one list.  The
easiest way is to create an alias that expands to each of your listnames.
For example, if you have lists called surfers, divers, climbers, and jumpers,
your alias would look like this;

subscribers: surfers,divers,climbers,jumpers

(Remember to run newaliases every time you edit the aliases file.)

If you are concerned with security, or someone replying to "subscribers", 
you can comment it out and re-run newaliases when you are done sending
the message.

An easier way, would be to create a subscribers list.  That way you can 
control the names of the lists that are subscribed remotely, and you can
secure the list with a restrict_post setting, allowing only you to post.

Dan Liston

Christopher James wrote:
> 
> To all,
> 
> Does anyone know how to get majordomo to send an email to all of its list
> subscribers without having to send an email to it ? or is this not possible ?
> 
> Just want to send a newsletter to all of my subscribers.
> 
> Chris



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