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02-17-2012

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Sendmail not showing recipients

I've figured out to do a mail merge with /usr/lib/sendmail which is extremely helpful as it is lightning fast compared to an Outlook mail merge which pretty much locks up my machine while it struggles to push out the emails. I figured out how to send html emails, with dynamic variables, and how our company translates id's to addresses which is 95% done. The last obstacle I'm facing is that the emails do not show to whom the email was sent.

When I use Outlook mail merge, which does not have an option for Cc'ing multiple users, I have to put this pathetic note at the top saying "This email was also sent to <person1>, <person2>, <person3> (Outlook mail merge does not allow cc)". So I'm trying to use sendmail but it's now showing the recipients in the received mail so it doesn't achieve the desired result. This is how I have it set up:

Code:

while read line
doREQUEST_NUMBER=`echo $line | cut -d" " -f8`
USER_LOGIN=`echo $line | cut -d" " -f2`
END_USER=`echo $line | cut -d" " -f3`
REQUESTOR=`echo $line | cut -d" " -f4`
SERVER_OWNER=`echo $line | cut -d" " -f5`
(cat html_greeting
echo $END_USER
cat html_body
echo $REQUESTOR
cat html_server_owner
echo $SERVER_OWNER
cat html_closing
) | /usr/lib/sendmail -f NO-REPLY@domain $SERVER_OWNER,$REQUESTOR,$END_USER

done < txt

Where txt is a sheet of data w/ all the id's and stuff on each line. I tried putting the recipients without commas, inside quotes, with commas and inside quotes...several different combinations. The emails are sent and received but the three people will not see that they have all been send the email so there could be some confusion as to who is in the loop and who isn't. Is there a reason those three addresses would not show on the receiving email?

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local.users

local.users(4)						     Kernel Interfaces Manual						    local.users(4)

NAME

       local.users - Specifies mail recipients on the local host.

DESCRIPTION

       The  local.users  file  contains  a  list  of  user names whose mail is to be delivered to the local host and whose return address is user-
       name@hostname.  Entries in the local.hosts file are in addition to other local users (such as root and postmaster). See sendmail.cf(4)  for
       a description of other local users.

       You  can  add  entries  to this file if the host is configured as a simple client and either of the following is true: The user wants their
       mail delivered on this machine rather than being forwarded to the mail server.  You are adding  aliases	to  the  /var/adm/sendmail/aliases
       file. When the host is configured as a simple client, the alias must be added to this file and the aliases file.

       A simple client is defined as a host that had the mail system configured using the MailConfig application from the System Management utili-
       ties or configured using the mailsetup utility's Quick Setup menu.

       The format of the file is as follows: User names are separated by blanks or new lines.  Multiple user name can  be  specified  on  a  line.
       Blank lines are ignored.  A comment mark (#) ends the line.

       After  modifying  the  local.users  file,  you  must  restart  the  sendmail  daemon  to  apply	the changes.  Use the following command: #
       /sbin/init.d/sendmail restart

EXAMPLES

       root postmaster rw  # A comment followed by an ignored blank line.

       # Another comment.  mariah    # Another comment.
	  carey  # Leading blanks are acceptable.

FILES

       Specifies the path name for the file.

RELATED INFORMATION

       Files: sendmail.cf(4).  delim off

																    local.users(4)

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