Re: [cobalt-users] Email - All Admin

["Steve Werby" <steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Gary Meadows" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> IIRC, someone mentioned a way of emailing all the siteadmin on a Cobalt
> recently.can anyone confirm this for us?

I think someone suggested opening /etc/group, finding the line for the group
"site-adm" and copying and pasting the associated users into your mail
program with your main domain name appended.  I suggest automating the
process so you don't need to touch anything when the list of site admins
changes.

To get the usernames you want you can do:

cat /etc/group | grep site-adm | cut -f 4 -d ":"

I would setup a cron job to do this:

cat /etc/group | grep site-adm | cut -f 4 -d ":" > /root/admin_list.txt

Then I'd create a line in virtusertable like:

serveradmins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx serveradmins

And a line in aliases like:

serveradmins: :include:/root/admin_list.txt

Then run "newaliases", "makemap hash /etc/virtusertable <
/etc/virtusertable" (replace w/ /etc/mail/virtusertable depending on Cobalt
server you are using) and restart sendmail.  Then you can email the
siteadmins by emailing serveradmins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  It's a good idea to
obfuscate the email address and username so know one can guess it and to
email the bcc: field so it doesn't appear in email headers.

If you want to refer to a previous post of mine about generating a list of
*all* users see
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=cobalt-users&m=98829465100883&w=2.

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