Small query on distribution lists

[Timothy Murphy]

Giuliano Colla wrote:

>> I guess I mis-stated what Mailman does.
>> I think it posts to each person on the list separately,
>> with the name of the list added to the Subject line.

> Sorry, I'm not too much familiar with Mailman. I gave a look to
> documentation, and Mailman turns out to be a Mailing List Manager, i.e.
> something acting in conjunction with a mail server. It can receive mail
> and then send it to each member of a list, if instructed to do so.
> KMail is a mail client, which is only capable of sending your e-mail to
> a mail server: one click, one mail sent, then it is up to the server to
> send a copy to each recipient in the To list. It's beyond the scope of a
> mail client to scan the To list and to create out of the original mail
> you typed, 100 e-mails, each one stripped of the other recepient
> addresses, and then perform 100 send instead of just one.

But I suppose KAddressBook could similarly have a facility
to ask KMail to send items to each member of a distribution list?

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