[Mailman-Users] how could i send a message to all subscribed adresses?

[Brad Knowles]

At 10:56 AM +0100 2005-02-18, Bart Huisman wrote:

>  i have a mailman mail list at my server, but how could i send a
>  message to all subscribed adresses? i have searched at your site,
>  there are much things you can do for the mailing list, but i cant find
>  simply the most important thing, how to send a messege to all members
>  of the list?

	Mailman doesn't have a built-in way to send a message to all 
members of all lists.

	You could create an "umbrella" list that would include all other 
lists on the server as it's "subscribers", and then send out a 
message to the umbrella list.  However, that would not eliminate 
duplicate messages sent to people who are subscribed to more than one 
list.

	Another alternative would be to use the command-line tools to get 
a list of all subscribers, then pass that through "sort -u", and then 
create a new list including all of those addresses.


	I'd encourage you to spend some time searching the Mailman FAQ 
Wizard and the archives to get a better idea of how to do these 
things.

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