Subject: Huge .addressbook

From: Jean Schuller <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 11:32:40 +0100 (MET)

Hi gurus,

I have a file containing 3636 addresses and want to send a mail to
all the people of this list. I create, using perl, an .addressbook
but, even I split them in 2 .addressbooks, Pine complains about
a too long file. Is something to do (of course not by hand) ??

TIA

JEAN

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From: R R Neuswanger <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 15:25:55 -0500

If you're lucky, it may be impossible: sounds
like email spam to me. Do you seriously mean to imply
that 3636 people have each *asked* you to send them
whatever it is?
	I know I haven't, and if my address is in there,
I will react as I do to other unsolicited email.

R R (Beartooth) Neuswanger, Ph D, NRA-E
[email-masked]                  Better to hunt, while
                              strength lasts, than
I speak for me. Only.         eat or sleep.

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From: [email-masked] (Aled Treharne)
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 00:55:47 GMT

Jean Schuller ([email-masked]) wrote:

: I have a file containing 3636 addresses and want to send a mail to
: all the people of this list. I create, using perl, an .addressbook
: but, even I split them in 2 .addressbooks, Pine complains about
: a too long file. Is something to do (of course not by hand) ??

You can ask your local sysadmin (if you're on a Unix system) to add your
aliases to the aliases file - in Sendmail something like 

<alias>: include:/home/luser/alias.list

You would then send mail to <alias>@<localhost> and it would send the
e-mail to every person on your list. The file with the list in it has to
be world-readable and in a world-executable directory but you can change
this file as needs be. Hope this solves your problem.

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From: Raoul Beauduin <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 22:32:20 +0900

schuller> I have a file containing 3636 addresses and want to send a mail to
schuller> all the people of this list. I create, using perl, an .addressbook
schuller> but, even I split them in 2 .addressbooks, Pine complains about
schuller> a too long file. Is something to do (of course not by hand) ??

	One solution: Split more!
	
	Raoul

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From: Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 09:09:08 -0800 (PST)

There is a limit on the length of a single line in the address book. It's
1000 characters. Might that be the limit you're running into? If so you
just need to use continuation lines in the long list. After one of the
comma's separating the list addresses start a new line with a space and
then continue the list. Look at one of the addressbook files that pine
makes to see an example.

Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Networks and Distributed Computing, Univ. of Washington, Seattle