How can I send one email to all the users.

03/22/2002

Problem:How can I send one email to all the users.

Solution:

Create a new user through the UI under the main site with the user id of "SOMENAME". Choose an account that is unlikely to ever receive mail accidentally).
Logon to the as the Superuser.
Type this command:
ls -Al /home/spool/mail/* | gawk {'print "\\"$9'} | sed 's~/home/spool/mail/~~' > /home/sites/home/users/SOMENAME/.forward
Now send an EMAIL to an alias account and BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) the new account SOMENAME@mymainsitedomain.com.

NOTE: The reason for the BCC is any mail that is sent to the account SOMENAME (SOMENAME@mainsitedomain.com) will have SOMENAME in the TO email address, which will show this account username to the users on the server. An easy way to avoid this happening would be to address the TO address as something like ANNOUNCE@domain.com, and BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) SOMENAME@mydomain.com. Thus masking the REAL email address that allows bulk mailing.

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