Let's go old school Unix for a bit; because what you want to do isn't going to work with sendmail alone! Add an entry in your aliases file:
\allusers: "|/etc/mail/mailallusers.sh"
(The \ prevents someone from further aliasing 'allusers')
Then create a script like the following (note this script may not be prefect, I'm on a Mac and writing it from memory, not a Unix box where I can test it).
#/etc/mail/mailallusers.sh
#!/bin/sh
me=`who am i | awk -F '{ print %1 }'`
for f in `cat /etc/group | grep '^users\:'`
do
echo "Mailing $f" >> /tmp/mail_log.$$
Mail $f < - >> /tmp/mail_log.$$
Mail $me < /tmp/mail_log.$$
rm /tmp/mail_log.$$
done
#end
Now the only caveat that I can think of is that I'm not sure if sendmail passes the message as stdin to the aliases program (the '-' on the first mail line signifies stdin); you may want to check that. But back in the old school Unix days, we used to hand crank out mail processing scripts just like this.
Hope this helps.
-brian
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[mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Eucke Warren
Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 4:24 PM
To: Redhat Support Usergroup
Subject: Using /etc/aliases with groups
I have been googling and I have not hit upon a keyword combination that will shed light on this. I would like to create a Group for mass emailing users on a server. I have tried adding a line like
everyone: users
but the email ends up being rejected. This is a sendmail setup and, yes, I did run newaliases after altering the /etc/aliases file. Anyone doing this? Suggestions on how to implement? I intend to only make the group alias live when we want to do the mass Email and will disable it once it is sent to prevent unauthorized use.
Thanks guys!
-Eucke
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