Is there an easy way to mass notify?

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I’m making a significant change to one of my Discourse forums and would like to one-time email the users who have posted, about 50. I globally pinned an announcement but I’m not sure everyone is emailed with a notification of it, are they?

I tried mentioning the users by name with @ in the post but that part is immediately deleted, I’m guessing from hitting a spam protection threshold, which is awesome but I hoped my admin account would be exempt.

Any good way to accomplish what I want? Just having a globally pinned topic isn’t sufficient in this case unless they’re each informed via email. I’m not sure if the digest gets to everyone or…?

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Go to Admin, Users, click the export button. Use that CSV list to feed into a mass mailing service.

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Sounds good just wanted to make sure that’s the way to go and I wasn’t missing something. I actually got my list from there. Thanks Jeff!

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Another way to do it is to send everyone a private message.
In the input box “add a user”, input trust_level_0. Then all users will be added into the recipient list. It will be a little bit messy in term of editing. But it will work.

Before you send out the message, you have to make sure you can use the group name trust level 0 as a alias.

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I did inserted trust_level_0 in the input field but I am getting an error which says

You must select a valid user.

Am I missing something?

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You have to modify the group setting.

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I get that, will surely try again

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I don’t think this trust level 0 hack is a good idea.

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I agree with you. but there is no easy way to broadcast a message to all users.

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That is because there is not supposed to be – that is spamming.

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This is really an inefficient way to notify everyone. Should be built into the platform.

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We plan to beef up group mentions and that would be a very efficient and simple way of notifying a group.

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Any news about this ?

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You tried the given solution but it didn’t work for you?

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I’m looking for an integrated solution… sorry :frowning:

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IMHO if you want an “integrated solution” to dispense information for all of your members to see the best thing to do is to make a topic with the information, then either Banner / Global Pin / Pin it,

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It’s not spamming if you have people who are willingly participating in your forum for a specific purpose. And i must say I find your totaly unwillingness to listen to your clients who are paying for this platform to be less than optimal.

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This is the solution:

We are strongly considering adding mass mailing support as a feature for the enterprise hosting tier. If you’d like to upgrade to that tier let us know.

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Can your team come up with a plugin that can auto-sync this list with lists on mailchimp, mailerlite, madmimim etc? I won’t mind even if it a paid plugin.