Hi, a couple of weeks ago I posted asking for some help with a spurious email that I was receiving when I sent out emails to a group for which I write a newsletter. One of the members of the list was kind enough to respond off list and send me a metasend script that he uses, recommending to use it instead of my current method of mailing. Here is the script: metasend -b -e 7bit -t $DEST \ -s $SUBJECT \ -F $FROM \ -m "text/plain" -f $TEXTFILE \ -n \ -S 10000000 \ -m "application/pdf;name=\"${PDFFILE}\"" \ -f ${PDFFILE} \ -D ${PDFFILE} sleep 5 done I didn't exactly know how to use the script so I wrote back to seek some clarification, and of course my attempt to figure it out was wrong. The response I got was less than helpful, and I am still left in the dark as to how to use the script. So I thought that it would be more profitable to seek advice here on the list regarding how to use this list. I think that in place of each of the capitalized parts of the script I need to insert something, so here is my best guess and I hope that the list members will correct me. DEST - I think that I have to make up and insert a file into the script with each of the email addresses of the mail list members, like abernathycool@jpmussels.com Abernathy Cool suzytalker@roadrunner.net Suzy Talker jonathantrakes@scommand.com Jonathan Trakes I don't think that I can point to the file from within the script, as if the mail list file was stored on the computer in a different file. I think that it has to be a part of the script. SUBJECT - Just replace this with something like "Monthly Newsletter" FROM - replace this with my email address TEXTFILE - Not sure what this one is for, unless it is something to appear in the body of the email, like: This is your monthly newsletter! PDFFILE - Not sure what to do with this one, I think I have to insert the whole pdf file of the newsletter here but am not sure how to do that. Well, as you can probably tell from my questions, I haven't caught on to this yet. So I hope that your answers will be simple and explanatory. Thanks, Mark -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org