On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 16:24, Rob Siemborski wrote: > On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Alexander Brill wrote: > > > Is there an easy way to deliver a message to all my users? Would be > > handy in sending out system messages. > > This is an MTA level thing, but there are a few ways to generate a list of > all your users to mail to. > > (one is to log into cyrus as an admin, and issue 'x LIST "" "user.%"') > > You can probably do this with a simple cyradm script to get the results > you need.
Yeah.. I wrote a quick python-script to do it all. I attached it in case anyone else would like the same thing. -- Alexander Brill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.project23.no PGP-key: http://www.nettstudio.no/firma/Library/PGP/alex_pgp/view
import imaplib, sys
"""
A script to get all mailboxes and deliver a message to them. Useful for sending out system messages.
Alexander Brill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"""
class Imap:
def __init__(self, username, password, host):
self.imap = imaplib.IMAP4(host)
self.imap.login(username,password)
def getUsers(self):
""" Returns a list of users. """
users = []
status, data = self.imap.list(pattern='"user.\%"')
if not status == "OK":
return None
for user in data:
users.append(user.split()[2].replace('"',"").replace("user.",""))
return users
def append(self, user, message):
""" Append message to the user's mailbox"""
user = "user.%s" % user
status, data = self.imap.append(user, None, None, message)
return status,data
if __name__ == "__main__":
if not len(sys.argv) == 5:
print "Usage: %s <username> <password> <hostname> <message>" % sys.argv[0]
sys.exit(1)
username = sys.argv[1]
password = sys.argv[2]
hostname = sys.argv[3]
msg = open(sys.argv[4], "r").read()
imap = Imap(username, password, hostname)
users = imap.getUsers()
if users:
print "Sending message to %d users:" % len(users)
for user in users:
status, data = imap.append(user, msg)
if status == "OK":
data = ""
print user, status, data
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