Once you have that, a simple Perl program could be used to send them each a message, using the Perl Mail::Sender module. Here's a snippet of a Perl program we use to send mass email:
Just get your list of users and put it into the '@list_of_all_userids' array and they'll all get mailed.
#!/bin/perl -w use Mail::Sender; my $c=0; my $sleep_time=60; my $emails_between_sleep=100;
foreach my $userid (@list_of_all_userids) {
$c += 1;
&mail_it($userid);
if ($c > $emails_between_sleep) {
# so the mail server doesn't get killed
sleep $sleep_time;
$c = 0;
}
}
sub mail_it {
my ($to) = @_;
my $mailhost='your.smtp.server';
my $from = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]';
my $subject = 'Some kind of subject';
my $body = 'This is the message body.';
my $file = '/path/to/attachment';$sender = new Mail::Sender {
smtp => $mailhost,
from => $from
};
$sender->MailFile({
to => $to,
subject => $subject,
msg => $body,
file => $file
});
}--On Monday, June 30, 2003 4:17 PM +0100 Dave Carrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi All
New to administrating a email server so I beck your kindness if this is a simple question.
I have about 3000 users of which I wish to send them an email notifying them of some downtime.
How do I do that?
Server is FreeBSD 4.7 / Postfix / Cyrus
Thank you for any help in advance
Dave C
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