Its possible that FASTMAIl will work for me but the docs are very confusing to me as to the actual commands. The doc is below. All help REALLY APPRECIATED! (BTW, my mailing list is to clients who has REQUESTED catalogs; no SPAM!). Best, John FASTMAIL(1L) MISC. REFERENCE MANUAL PAGES FASTMAIL(1L) NAME fastmail - quick batch mail interface to a single address SYNOPSIS fastmail [-b bcc-list] [-c cc-list] [-C comments] [-d] [-f fromname] [-i msg-id] [-r replyto] [-R references] [-s sub- ject] filename|- address-list DESCRIPTION _ F_ a_ s_ t_ m_ a_ i_ l is a low-level interface to the mail system that allows batch processing of mail. It's intended for mailing to very large groups of people in a staggered fashion. The starting options are; -b bcc-list This allows a list of people to receive blind- carbon copies, or BCCs, of the message. This list should be full email addresses. -c cc-list This allows a list of people to receive carbon copies, or CCs, of the message. This list should be full email addresses. -C comments This allows a Comments: line to be added to the RFC822 header with any text you desire. -d Debug. This is helpful for strange, unfriendly errors from the program (etc). -f from This overrides the users name in the From: line, so that if the user was x@y, and their name was MrX then the default From: line would be "From: x@y (MrX)". Using "-f Joe" when invoking this, though, would change it to "From: x@y (Joe)" -i msg-id This allows a message-id to which this message refers. -r replyto Occasionally, you might send mail but want the replies to go to a different address (very common with mailing lists). There is a header for this purpose called "Reply-To:" which can be utilized by using this starting option. For example, we could send mail with a reply-to to list-request by using "-r list-request". The header generated would then be of the form "Reply-To: list- request". USENET Community Tru Ls at st change: Elm Version 2.4 1 FASTMAIL(1L) MISC. REFERENCE MANUAL PAGES FASTMAIL(1L) -R references This allows descriptive/reference text for this message. -s subject The subject of the message is specified by using this starting option. Either the name of the file containing the message, or a - to indicate usage of standard-in is required. EXAMPLE Let's say we're user "big" on machine "big-vax" and we have a shell script called 'batch-mail' that contains the follow- ing lines: # # Batch Mail - batch mailing of a file to a LOT of users # # Usage: batch-mail "from" "subject" filename sender_copy = $LOGIN replyto = "The-Mr-Big-list" fastmail -b $sender_copy -r $replyto -f "$1" -s "$2" $3 person1 sleep 10 fastmail -r $replyto -f "$1" -s "$2" $3 person2 sleep 10 fastmail -r $replyto -f "$1" -s "$2" $3 person3 sleep 10 fastmail -r $replyto -f "$1" -s "$2" $3 person4 < etc > with the invocation: batch-mail "Mr. Big" "Warning to all" warning.text would mail a copy of the 'warning.text' file to person1, person2, person3, etc. "$LOGIN" will also receive a copy of the first message in the mail, _ s_ i_ l_ e_ n_ t_ l_ y. Each resultant message will include the headers: From: big-vax!big (Mr. Big) Subject: Warning to all Reply-To: The-Mr-Big-list This program should turn out to be considerably faster than the alternative methods of accomplishing this task. FILES /usr/lib/sendmail sendmail transport if available USENET Community Tru Ls at st change: Elm Version 2.4 2 FASTMAIL(1L) MISC. REFERENCE MANUAL PAGES FASTMAIL(1L) /bin/rmail transport if no sendmail /tmp/fastmail.$$ temporary file AUTHOR Elm Development Group SEE ALSO sendmail(1), rmail(1), elm(1L) BUG REPORTS TO Syd Weinstein [log in to unmask] (dsinc!elm) COPYRIGHTS Copyright 1988-1992 by The USENET Community Trust Derived from Elm 2.0, Copyright 1986, 1987 by Dave Taylor USENET Community Tru Ls at st change: Elm Version 2.4 3 -- * FREE shareware and latest CD-ROM/Computer gear for sale at my * * WWW WEB PAGE http://www.xmission.com/~wwwads/mind/logic.html * * Catalog E-mailed catalog as text, zipped, UUEncoded etc. Or: * * ftp site : ftp.xmission.com /pub/users/w/wwwads/logic.zip * * E-mail for catalog: [log in to unmask] A nice guy in California * * Plug for friend: Blind or seeing impaired? Ask for Scat95.zip *