Email all users ?

Set up an email alias for all users (man 5 alaiases)

Okay, makes sense...

Do I add this in the etc/mail/virtusertable file ?

I thought that was for one to one mapping... not sure how to do one to many... any ideas ?

This is what I meant by one to one mapping.

# CLIENT NAME ------------------------------------
chris@ourclient.co.uk                        chris
sales@ourclient.co.uk                        chris
gareth@ourclient.co.uk                       gareth

Alternately, you can extract all users from the /etc/passwd files and pipe it to a scripts to send the mail.

#!/bin/sh
userlist=`cat /etc/passwd | cut -d: -f1`
for username in $userlist; do
  echo Mailing to $username
  cat /path/to/msg.txt | /usr/lib/sendmail -v $username
done

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and the msg.txt would be;
From: System Administrator
Subject: System Shutdown on 99/99/9999

We will be shutting down the server on the day
---

This should work.  And of course the scripts will mail to all user is passwd file.  You can modify the code by piping to a file first and remove all the system login-name(root,bin,etc.).

hope this helps.

That looks okay, but one thing... It returns stuff like

bin
daemon
adm
lp
sync
shutdown
halt
mail
news
uucp
operator
games
gopher
ftp
nobody
vcsa
mailnull
rpm
ntp
rpc
xfs
 and more....

Won't it try to email these too ?
Oh yeah you mentioned that....   Okay... If you can give me an idea of how to write the script that removes the login names...

or preferably tell me how to do it using the virtusertable or equivalent, then the points are yours.

Hi
Lets say that I have already my userlist. What I must change in your code
#!/bin/sh
userlist = /etc/allusers
is it right this change?

where in allusers
george
chris
gkl
test
fotk
bbb
ccc
ksdj

#!/bin/sh
userlist=`cat /etc/allusers`

for username in $userlist; do
 echo Mailing to $username
 cat msg.txt | /usr/lib/sendmail -v $username
done
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should work.

Aren't we support to start another thread?

cheers.