Subject: Send Information to a list of e-mail address

From: [email-masked] (Anthony Kwok)
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 08:01:25 GMT

We have a project to send a large text file (20 pages) to our
customers everyday. Since we are using the slow dial up connection,
sending these information is time consuming and become too expensive.
Although we can send to a list of e-mail address within one message,
it will expose all the e-mail address to each customer. Could somebody
give us some hint on doing that? Is it possible to transfer the text
file to our unix account at ISP first and run some program for
background transferring?

Please reply to [email-masked] if possible!

  _
 /| Rgds,
/-|nthony

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From: [email-masked] (Adrian K Buckman)
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 14:40:11 GMT

[email-masked] (Anthony Kwok) wrote:

>customers everyday. 

>Cut

Just an idea, how about using a commercial email package as this
requirement is supported as a 'normal' feature. We use DaVinci and I
know that CC Mail can do the same using Blind Copy. 

Another idea is to use the mail list feature - so your customers see
the mail list name and nothing else.

...regards

Since we are using the slow dial up connection,

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From: [email-masked] (Tim Lloyd)
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 22:53:32 +0800

>file to our unix account at ISP first and run some program for

If you're using something like Eudora you can use the bcc: header instead
of the CC: header to hide the names of the other customers.....

Tim

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From: Jean Pierre LeJacq <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 12:13:02 -0500 (EST)

> of the CC: header to hide the names of the other customers.....

Pine also supports bcc: headers.  From the main menu enter C (Compose)
and then ^R (Rich Hdr).  If pine is properly configured, you'll see
the bcc: header at that point.

However, what your customers actually see is dependent on your mail
transport agent (e.g. smail, sendmail) and not pine.  They may still
see the entire list.  See help for the bcc: header which you can get
by ^G (Help) when the cursor is on the bcc: header.

--- Jean Pierre

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From: Ian Russell Ollmann <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 23:10:10 -0800

> Please reply to [email-masked] if possible!

Simply put all of the addresses in the Bcc: line and send yourself a copy 
in the To: line. Some mail routers will display the Bcc: addresses if 
there is no address in the To: or Cc: lines. You may wish to send out a 
test mailing to verify that there is no problem. The Bcc: line can be 
revealed by moving the cursor up above the "----- Message Text -----" 
line and hitting ctrl-R when you are writing the mail in pine.

				Ian

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From: [email-masked] (Spectrum Office Systems)
Date: 30 Jan 1996 15:08:53 GMT

How about a Z-Script program?  Then you wouldn't need to mess with 
converting the message to your UNIX system at all.

The Z-Script cookbook and reference manual (available at ftp.ncd.com in 
electronic form) describes the scripting language pretty well.  Perhaps 
you could do something like this:

1) send the message to yourself.

2) run your script on it.
	the script might be something like this:

		for recip in fred@bedrock bill@whitehouse queen@palace
			mail -f msg_num $recip

	I'm fairly sure this is not the right syntax, but the idea should 
be pretty solid.

Good Luck,
Tom McHugh <[email-masked]>
Spectrum Office Systems, Inc.
Z-Mail resellers

Anthony Kwok ([email-masked]) wrote:
: We have a project to send a large text file (20 pages) to our
: customers everyday. Since we are using the slow dial up connection,
: sending these information is time consuming and become too expensive.
: Although we can send to a list of e-mail address within one message,
: it will expose all the e-mail address to each customer. Could somebody
: give us some hint on doing that? Is it possible to transfer the text
: file to our unix account at ISP first and run some program for
: background transferring?
: 
: Please reply to [email-masked] if possible!
: 
:   _
:  /| Rgds,
: /-|nthony