Send email to users?

[exodo]

Any plugin to send email to all users around there? useful to newsletter or urgent notification to the community.

[yariplus]

Huh, that's strange one doesn't exist yet, I looked around for a bit and couldn't find one.

Anyway, the methods were pretty easy to figure out, I can fancy this up and package it later today.

	var sender_uid = 0, start = 0, limit = 100;
	async.waterfall([
		function (next) {
			db.getObjectField('global', 'userCount', next);
		},
		function (count, next) {
			User.getUsersFromSet('users:joindate', sender_uid, start, count, next);
		},
		function (users, next) {
			console.log('Sending emails to users ('+users.length+'): ');
			async.eachLimit(users, limit, function(userObj, next) {
				console.log('sending to uid ' + userObj.uid);
				emailer.send('test', userObj.uid, {  // templates/emails/test.tpl
					subject: 'Test Email',
					username: userObj.username
				});
				return next();
			}, next);
		}
	], function (err, results) {
		console.log('Done sending emails.');
	});

[a_5mith]

If you use mandrill as an emailer. You can export your users as a csv file and load them into mandrill and email from there.

[baris]

@yariplus You don't have to get the userCount you can use -1 for the getUsersFromSet method and it will grab all the uids.

Ideally though since you only need username/uid you can grab that directly instead of calling getUsersFromSet which does a bunch of other stuff.

    var sender_uid = 0, limit = 100;
    async.waterfall([
        function(next) {
              db.getSortedSetRange('users:joindate', 0, -1, next);
        },
        function (next) {
            User.getMultipleUserFields(uids, ['uid', 'username'], next);
        },
        function (users, next) {
            console.log('Sending emails to users ('+users.length+'): ');
            async.eachLimit(users, limit, function(userObj, next) {
                console.log('sending to uid ' + userObj.uid);
                emailer.send('test', userObj.uid, {  // templates/emails/test.tpl
                    subject: 'Test Email',
                    username: userObj.username
                });
                return next();
            }, next);
        }
    ], function (err, results) {
        console.log('Done sending emails.');
    });

[yariplus]

@a_5mith That's sounds like a good/better way to do it.

Do you think there would be any problems with the way I send them above?

[yariplus]

@baris Ah! Wonderful. Thank you.

[yariplus]

Here you go
https://www.npmjs.com/package/nodebb-plugin-newsletter

I added a drop-down with all the groups instead of always sending to everyone.

I also remove any user who is banned.

Issues/Todos:

• It squashes everything in the body into one line, there's probably a quick fix for that, but what I really want to have is a composer-like area.
• It seems to always send the email as plain text.
• Would be nice to have a checkbox that also creates a new topic for the newsletter.
• Needs to have an unsubscribe functionality.

[Scuzz]

Depending on the email plugin you use this can be made pretty simple. Although @yariplus has basically solved your problem, if you are using mailgun you can send out a mass emial via the csv download from the ACP.

I wrote a little blog post about this a while back - http://blog.bitbangers.co.uk/sending-emails-with-python-and-mailgun/

[exodo]

@yariplus testing it, thanks for the effort

[exodo]

teste it and works perfect , email received only the groups selected
only problem is the plan text, it doesn't let you line breaks etc
thanks for the good job

[a_5mith]

Pretty sure you'd need to set the content type.

Content-Type": "text/html" Or something like that.