# Any mass email functionality?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-mass-email-functionality/14202
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [March 27, 2014, 7:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-mass-email-functionality/14202 "2014-03-27T19:53:38Z")
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### Author: ![erlend\_sh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/erlend_sh/32/119475_2.png) [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2015, 12:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-mass-email-functionality/14202/20 "2015-02-12T12:34:24Z")

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I’m in a similar situation, and after doing some research and thinking, I’ve concluded that this is not Discourse’s problem. So here’s a workaround.

### Two very important caveats

1. There could be a law against this type of mass sending, depending on where you’re sending to/from.
2. If you follow bad practices, you risk having your sender address (possibly even your root domain; I don’t know exactly how these things work) marked as spam by major services like Gmail.

Personally I don’t see an issue with sending out an e-mail to users who signed their e-mail up to the equivalent of a mailing list, as long as the opt-out is prominent and super simple.

### How to do mass sendouts with your Discourse userbase

There are many ways to do this. I will list two that I would consider reasonably safe.

#### Method 1

Export users from Discourse (Admin → Users → Export) and import the CSV file into Mailchimp/[Sendy](http://sendy.co/) or [Sendyhosting](http://www.sendyhosting.com/) (a more affordable option I came upon recently).

#### Method 2

Sync users with WordrPress and use one of its [Newsletter Plugins](https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=newsletter).

If you’d like to method #1 every year or so when you have a major round-up announcement to make, you could just export and import again, since any good newsletter service will ignore duplicates and track opt-out users for you.

Longer term, a far more desirable solution would be this:

> [@awesomerobot](#):
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> A plugin allowing users to opt-in to a newsletter controlled by a mailing service (Mailchimp, Constant Contact) while creating an account on Discourse wouldn’t be too complicated… and seems like it would be a much better way to handle the newsletter usecase.

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