On 28.08.24 09:38, Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 11:38:29AM +0200, Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 11:08:52AM +0200, Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote:
>>> I don't remember if GNU mailutils version is able to read headers
>>> included in the same file you feed with the body (perhaps Mutt?)  In
>>> this case you should be able to use a loop like this:
>>>
>>> for i in `cat /etc/lots_of_recipients`; do
>>> 	mail $i < body_including_headers.txt
>>> done
>>>
>>> But, so far, with the OpenBSD version of mail you can't do that.  You
>>> cannot pass other headers than From, To, Cc, Bcc and Subject, and only
>>> in the ways explained in the man page.
>>>
>>
>> You can do the following with the bsd-mailx version you find in Debian
>> as a package:
>>
>>   for i in `cat /etc/lots_of_recipients`; do
>>  	mail -a "Message-ID: <string>" $i < body.txt
>>   done
>>
>> It would be ideal to add such option to openbsd mail, in fact that was
>> my first idea years ago.  I opted for a simpler solution according to
>> the approach of this project.
>>
> 
> Or simply do this:
> 
>   $ echo Hello | mail -s hello `cat lots_of_recipients`
> 
> You can also use an alias to many recipients.

It's not about what *I* can do and what alternatives *I* have, it's
about what users are used to and if any change can be justified. Seen
the message id of this message?

> 
> This is one symptom among thousands of how uselessly we complicate our
> lives and get lost in our own abstractions.
> 

Says the man continuously sending mails to this list without any progress.

-- 
Christian