[ale] limiting access to e-mail aliases

[alexei at mindspring.com (Alexei Rodriguez)]

Juan Bou Riquer. wrote:
> 
> this script will send a copy of the file /root/mensaje to all the mailboxes
> names in /var/spool/mail, I needed to put the sleep 10 to send a message
> every 10 seconds to prevent overflow of the sendmail program, this will be
> different at your system, I use it to send a message to more than 1500
> users only writing the meesage I want to send in /root/mensaje, my system
> takes about 5 hours to generate the mail to every user and I usually start
> it at night

This would work for everybody that has gotten email on the system.

But what about folks in the aliases file?

How do you handle .forwards?

How about people that do not get mail?





Alexei