Bulk Email Users
JoeCotellese - August 17, 2004 - 17:38
I'm trying to find out if there is a module that let's me send out a bulk email notification to all users on my drupal site. I know about the subscription module but that's not exactly what I have in mind. I'm looking for just a form on the administration pages that allows me to send an email to the users of the site.
It doesn't seem like it would be too hard to implement I just don't want to reinvent the wheel.
See previous posts on this topic
...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...
Module available
I've drafted a quick module for emailing users, see
http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/contributions/modules/mail/.
Sweet
Thanks, I'll check it out.
Joe Cotellese
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really old thread update
This is an ancient post, but figured since I got here via a search engine others might too. I think the current modules for doing this are presently:
http://drupal.org/project/mass_contact
http://drupal.org/project/advuser
I haven't used either of them yet, but plan to use advuser soon. Both are beta as of Jan 2008.
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Thanks a lot man.. I am looking for the same.
THANK YOU
I found this from Google
I found this from Google too. Was looking for a 6.x solution. I'll post back here if I find one soon.
Drupal 6 email users module ?
Drupal 6 email users module ?
Hi, I am also looking fo a Drupal 6 solution, any news ?
Thanks.
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From 3 comments up: http://drupal.org/project/mass_contact
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mailout
the mailout module should do what you want
http://drupal.org/project/mailout
Not for D6 yet though...
Not for D6 yet though...
Also in need for a D6
Also in need for a D6 version of *any* of these modules. Anyone up to speed on how to supply the corresponding requests?
Drupal 6 bulk e-mail?
I'm wondering if this is possible, too. What a great module that'd be!
Mass Contact Module
You may want to check out the Mass Contact Module
Just don't forget to read the info about the module. I missed the line that the menu item is disabled by default. Took me a little bit to find that.
My Solution
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 = Bulkmaildescription = Send a mail to all users.
core = 6.x
bulkmail.module
<?php
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)
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I tried
Yes, it works but I disabled module after I used it.
Hi, this looks interesting.
Hi, this looks interesting. I've created the directory and the two files, enabled the module . . . now what? How do I actually compose and send an email?
Regards
H
As far as I know it should
As far as I know it should give you a menu item... "Send Bulk Mail" but you may have to activate it in "menus"
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That's embarrassing! Thanks
That's embarrassing!
Thanks klaasvanschelven for pointing me in the right direction, it is in fact in there, enabled by default . . . just not in the menu I expected and for some reason, until checking again just now, couldn't find it!
Much appreciated :)
One more thing you may want
One more thing you may want to keep in mind. When I first used the module, I had to set up TWO contact groups (even though I had only one subset of registered users I needed to send bulk email to) before it would send an email.
When I set up the first list and tried sending an email, it acted like it worked, but it didn't. So I set up a second (dummy) list, which then prompts a selectbox option when you're composing the email. Apparently something in the module needs to have the selectbox available to actually send the email.
If my explanation doesn't make sense, or if your experience was different, let me know.
What about Hosting Provider's send limitations?
This look interesting, but my hosting provider has a limit of 500 emails/hour. I think this module would try to send to all of my (2K) accounts at once, yes/no? In which case 1500 messages would hit the dirt.
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I believe that's one of the issues the http://drupal.org/project/queue_mail module is aimed at alleviating.
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Great solution - can it be used for just 'friends' or 'fans'?
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
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You might be able to use http://drupal.org/project/views_mail for that.
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Thanks WorldFallz. I followed
Thanks WorldFallz. I followed your suggestion but I cannot get my head around how this module works. I appreciate that the author of the module has said he needs time to write up documentation for it, so I guess I'll sit tight and wait for it to appear.
Thanks for the suggestion though,
H