By mcsolas on

Im just about done with the initial configuration & importing of content to re-launch my site.

Now that we are done, we would like to email all registered users that we imported. Since no mailing lists are setup, no one is 'subscribed' to anything yet.

How can I email all of my users a message ?

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

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vm’s picture

vm commented

There doesnt seem to be a mass mail feature in Drupal. see: http://drupal.org/search/node/mass+mail for a list of other users questioning the same feature.

The only way I can think to try and work this out would be to export the table that has the email addresses in it, and manually make a list or use excel to make a list. However you could go through the search listings i provided and see if someone narrowed down a better way.

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mcsolas commented

> There doesnt seem to be a mass mail feature in Drupal.

I was wondering why I didnt see anything in the list of mail modules...

Its only 100 users, so we can come up with something .. but its also going to be important for future communications.

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skives commented

these guys have been working on a mailing module: http://drupal.org/node/114293

I use it and it works fine - the code can be found here: http://pali.sirimangalo.org/files/mass_contact/mail_new/

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mcsolas commented

Just enabled this in the modules. I created a category that emails only the admins to test it out.

Made a test message, it saved it as a node .. great but I cant figure out how to actually make this module email the message...

Does this module need an email account for the site?

For the contact messages it hasnt needed one (it just generated the messages with no "From" address) but I guess its time to go configure that account either way, it needs to get setup.

jmarkantes’s picture

jmarkantes commented

You could use the Advanced User module to email users. Haven't really put it to use but messed around a while back and it seems to do the job.
J

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mcsolas commented

The only drawback is that the module has not yet been released for v 5.x .. I just subscribed to that issue.

Thanks for the leads on the other solution .. going to check those out now!

BenK’s picture

BenK commented

Subscribing...

kriskhaira’s picture

kriskhaira commented

The Advanced User module doesn't let you email all users across all the pages in the user list at the same time. You can only email users in one page at a time.

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haydeniv commented

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.

Jon Heaton