Bulk Email Users

...here and here. Specifically, killes suggested looking at portions of the devel.module, http://drupal.org/project/devel. A module for sending email to users, with ability to filter mail sent by role and profile parameters would be useful...

I've drafted a quick module for emailing users, see

http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/contributions/modules/mail/.

the mailout module should do what you want

http://drupal.org/project/mailout

I'm wondering if this is possible, too. What a great module that'd be!

This is my drupal 6 solution. No packaging, code standards and whatnot. Only one option: send mail to all. No variables. It works for me though... Please let me know if you have any improvements (including packaging, which you're free to do)

Create a folder "bulkmail" under sites/all/modules
Paste in two files:

bulkmail.info

name = Bulkmail
description = Send a mail to all users.
core = 6.x

bulkmail.module

function bulkmail_perm() {
    return array('access bulkmail content');
}

function bulkmail_menu() {
    $items = array();
    $items['bulkmail'] = array(
        'title' => t('Send Bulk Mail'),
        'page callback' => 'drupal_get_form',
        'page arguments' => array('bulkmail_form'),
        'access arguments' => array('access bulkmail content'),
        'type' => MENU_NORMAL_ITEM,
    );
    return $items;
}

function bulkmail_form() {
    $form['subject'] = array(
        '#type' => 'textfield',
        '#title' => t('Subject'),
        '#required' => TRUE,
    );
    $form['body'] = array(
        '#type' => 'textarea',
        '#title' => t('Body'),
        '#required' => TRUE,
    );
    $form['submit'] = array(
        '#type' => 'submit',
        '#value' => t('Send')
    );

    return $form;
}

function bulkmail_form_submit($form, &$form_state) {
    $params = array();
    $params['subject'] = $form_state['values']['subject'];
    $params['body'] = $form_state['values']['body'];

    $result = db_query("SELECT mail FROM {users}");
    while ($user = db_fetch_object($result)) {
        drupal_mail('bulkmail', 'ignored', $user->mail, language_default(), $params, NULL, TRUE);
    }
    drupal_set_message(t('Your message has been sent.'));
}

function bulkmail_mail($key, &$message, $params) {
    $message['subject'] = $params['subject'];
    $message['body'] = $params['body'];
}

Have fun with it. If this was useful to you and you feel like doing something back, you could recommend me on LinkedIn
http://www.linkedin.com/in/klaasvanschelven ([become linkedin member] > make friends with me > write a nice recommendation)

Thanks klaasvanschelven for a great script. Is it possible to amend this so that it sends emails to all a users "friends" or "fans" as determined by the user-relationships module?
H

try this http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/contributions/modules/mail/.

may be this is best solutions as per your need