Sending mail to a group

[linuxrahul]

Hi,

How can i send a mail to a group in Linux? for example, I want to send a notification mail to 20 people and I want to create a group of these 20 people and want to send them the notification

pls help me in this.

[lancest]

Google (Gmail) web mail with groups.
I recommend Gmail for this. You can configure groups there.
Any OO Calc file can be saved as a .csv and imported as a group into Gmail.
(Google the proceedure-it's simple, sheet must have headings).

External client with Gmail:
Groups can also be imported in same manner into Linux Evolution or Thunderbird mail clients as .csv and used with Gmail there also. BTW I prefer Google IMAP mail.

It's all free of charge. External clients use different Google mail servers so you can have two options in case internet traffic is a hinderance.

Often Google web mail is faster sending to groups.

I use this with great success with 30-40 person groups sending all kinds of files.

[scutiform]

In Thunderbird Address Book. Set up new address list with the people you want to send to.

Open Address Book, select the list. From Edit - select all.
Mouse over the list and RIGHT CLICK - Select Write.

Write your message or past from word processor etc

[sgosnell]

In Evolution, select New/Contact List, and then you can either drag addresses to it or start typing each address, and it will autocomplete them for you as soon as it can. Then start a new email message and send it to the list.

[Manko10]

Do you mean an external mail (as the others described) or an internal system mail, which the users can read using the mail command?

[Mudgen]

I'm thinking that you mean an alert sent via a command line utility like mailx or sent to an alert address configured in an application. I always just put a a group alias in /etc/aliases.